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Flying along the Kennebec River was an interesting feel and that i was pleased on the possible opportunity to go through the watershed of over, observe and you may check out the jobs which were going into the more many years to change the latest waters regarding the immediately following magnificent and in addition after tragically polluted waterway.

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9 years ago, nearly exactly with the go out, I’d met with the exact same chance to fly over the river after the the day-a lot of time Fulfilling for the Kennebec organized from inside the Waterville from the Maine Rivers, thank you so much again to your kindness of the nonprofit LightHawk.

Conservation biologist Dr. John Waldman is actually the newest conference’s keynote speaker and inserted me personally on the newest 2014 airline. However provided his comparison of the Kennebec and its particular prospective, noting the real history of your depletion of immediately following-great fisheries of East Seaboard due to overfishing, dams and you may contamination.

One of the most powerful affairs which he built to you one to go out inside Waterville is that, from Labrador as a result of Florida, of the many rivers flowing toward western Atlantic Ocean, the guy discovers brand new Kennebec has got the ideal range away from aquatic types, types which includes Atlantic fish, Atlantic sturgeon, short-nosed sturgeon, largemouth bass, American shad, alewife, blue-back herring, rainbow smelt, tomcod, American eel, and you may ocean lamprey. Merrymeeting Bay, an element of the Kennebec estuary system, integrates half a dozen streams – a global rarity of steeped and threatened range.

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