salmon

After years of opposition and legal challenges, Nordic Aquafarms says it will stop pursuing its land-based salmon farm project in Belfast.

The farm would produce up to 10,000 metric tons of salmon each year on the site of the former Great Northern Paper Mill.

Researchers from the Atlantic Salmon Federation say farm-raised salmon that recently escaped captivity are posing a serious threat to the endangered wild Atlantic salmon in Maine. They've collected 50 of the escaped salmon in the Magaguadavic River fishway in New Brunswick since the beginning of August.

A seal attack is being blamed for the loss of 50,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon at two fish farming sites near Cutler.

The four groups say they've obtained data showing the dam's owner remains in violation of the Endangered Species Act

The company that wants to build an industrial-scale salmon farm in Frenchman Bay near Acadia National Park will drop its lawsuit against the state.

A company that wants to build an industrial-scale salmon farm near Acadia National Park in Frenchman Bay is appealing the Maine Department of Marine Resources' termination of its lease application.

MACHIAS, Maine - A coalition of Maine conservation groups is calling on the state to add the Atlantic salmon to its list of endangered species. Maine's…

Journalist and author Mark Kurlansky’s latest book explores the significance of salmon as a species worldwide, and as an indicator of the health of our…

A Maine state project aims to bring salmon and river herring back to a tributary of one of the state's major rivers.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…