Gulf of Maine Atlantic salmon protected to recover imperiled stocks

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NOAA’s Fisheries Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service have extended Endangered Species Act protection to more Atlantic salmon by adding fish in the Penobscot, Kennebec, and Androscoggin rivers and their tributaries to the endangered Gulf of Maine population first listed in 2000.

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