Penobscot River atlantic salmon counts

Journal Date: June 18th, 2010 | Filed Under: Fishing Reports, News

Today we captured our 1000th salmon of the season for a total of 1009. You can see from the figures that this year’s run is on pace with 2008 and 2009. Although, in the last few days we have seen a reduction in the numbers of salmon in the trap. Last week we averaged about 50 new salmon per day. In the last the three days that has decreased to 13 per day. Water temperatures have returned to normal for this time of year (~ 19.0 C or 66.2 F).

Have a nice weekend.
Oliver Cox
Fishery Biologist
Department of Marine Resources
Bureau of Sea Run Fisheries and Habitat
650 State Street, Bangor, ME 04401
office: 207.941.4487
fax: 207.941.4443
oliver.n.cox@maine.gov

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