Save the Atlantic Salmon Maine is home to the last wild Atlantic
salmon populations in the United States, but the endangered fish
are nearly extinct in the Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers,
which provide key spawning habitat and migration routes. We’ve
turned to the courts to protect the salmon and our natural
heritage. Unprotected dams push salmon to the brink The Kennebec
and Androscoggin rivers once teemed with salmon runs of 100,000
or more — but now almost no Atlantic salmon return to the rivers
each year. Unprotected turbines at dams along the rivers are
among the leading causes of the declining salmon populations.
The dams kill and injure migrating salmon when they attempt to
pass through the dams’ rotating blades — akin to having fish
swim through the rotating blades of a giant window fan. To make
matters worse, dam owners have refused to implement simple
protection measures that have been successfully adopted
elsewhere, such as installing effective devices to divert salmon
from turbines. Environment