Fact Sheets, Reports & Website Links
Report
Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, 2006 Overview (2MB PDF)
Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, 2007 Overview (860KB PDF)
Our Gulf of Maine Coastal Program staff helps coordinate and manage the Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Fund, a large grant program funded from 2000 - 2006 through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In 2007, the Fund has been funded directly through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Fund supports voluntary community-based initiatives that help permanently protect Atlantic salmon watersheds, restore degraded habitat, build organizational capacity, conduct outreach, support applied research, and encourage best management practices of local industries that may impact salmon habitat. Our staff helps identify funding priorities and frequently provides technical expertise in identifying, designing and implementing high priority projects. These publications, produced in 2006 and 2007, describe and summarize our work with locally-based conservation groups, state agencies, industries and landowners to recover wild Atlantic salmon in Maine.