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Document Title:
Water Quality Issues as Potential Limiting Factors Affecting Juvenile Atlantic Salmon Life Stages in Maine Rivers : A Report to the Maine Atlantic Salmon Technical Advisory Committee
AUTHOR(S):
Steven E. Mierzykowski Terry A. Haines Richard Dill Clem Fay Merry Gallagher Daniel Kircheis
PUBLICATION DATE:
2002
ABSTRACT:
The Signatories to the Maine Atlantic Salmon Technical Advisory Committee
(TAC), in a letter to the TAC chair, requested guidance to resolve the issue whether water
quality issues are a concern for the management of Atlantic salmon and worthy of future
management investments. The issues of particular interest were acidification and
endocrine disruptor chemicals, but other water quality issues were also to be considered.
The signatories specifically requested information relative to the following three aspects:
a) Are water quality data and on-going efforts to gather more data currently available and
adequate to determine if water quality issues are a limiting factor related to the restoration
of Atlantic salmon- If not, please recommend an approach so the significance of the
identified water quality issues can be properly assessed.
b) What are the relative priorities in the areas of water quality survey and inventory as
compared with basic research into the impacts of the water quality factors on Atlantic
salmon-
c) Identify watersheds with the greater and lesser probabilities of vulnerability to the
water quality issues identified.
In formulating a response to these questions, the committee met several times to
debate the issues, review relevant reports and publications to determine the state of
research on the issues, searched data archives and queried various environmental
agencies to locate applicable water quality data, and prepare the written response.
PUBLISHED BY:
Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
DOCUMENT LINK:
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/mainecontaminants/pdf/Dill%20et%20al%202002_WaterQualityJuvenileAtlanticSalmon.pdf, 500 KB
ADDITIONAL LINKS:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Maine Contaminants Program
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