Northeast Division AFS
Maine Trout Surveys
Maine Trout Surveys
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife have been involved in an ongoing lake trout(togue) management study on Munsungan Lake in northern Maine. The fishery has been producing smaller sized togue that appear to be stockpiling. Maine fisheries biologists recently used…
Pennsylvania Paddlefish
Pennsylvania Paddlefish
Dr. David Argent, Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from California University of Pennsylvania, holding a 38-pound paddlefish netted on the Allegheny River   For many decades, Paddlefish were extirpated from flowing waters of the upper Ohio River basin in…
Minas Basin Atlantic Sturgeon
Minas Basin Atlantic Sturgeon
Researchers at Acadia University conducted a survey of the Minas Basin Atlantic sturgeon population during the summer of 2012.  They estimated roughly 25,000 sturgeon were present between the sizes of 100-200 cm.  Using genetic analyses they determined the Minas Basin population was…