WINTERPORT, Maine — A team of fisheries biologists and volunteers tromped along the banks of Cove Brook at the end of January, burdened by hoses and backpacks, funnels and cones and coolers.
For the past several years, Christman has been been planting eggs in the Sandy River drainage of western Maine, with staggering results. Last week, Christman joined biologists from the Bangor Department of Marine Resources office to kick off a multiyear egg-planting project on one of this region’s most sensitive pieces of water — Cove Brook.
Cove Brook, which flows into the Penobscot River in Winterport, was among the first Maine waters where Atlantic salmon were listed by the federal government as “endangered” more than a decade ago. And though salmon can swim freely into the stream upon their return from the ocean, biologists are hoping to jump-start a salmon run by seeded the streambed with eggs provided by Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery in Orland.
“This is the first time that we’ve [planted] eggs in the Penobscot drainage,” said biologist Norm Dube, who works out of the Bangor office.
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