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DSF Smelt Fry listed in Downeast Magazines Top 10 places to eat!
Best Town to Add to Your Culinary Tour
Columbia Falls
207-483-4067, columbiafallsmaine.com
Columbia Falls has at least two great tasty reasons to visit. The first, Wild Blueberry Land (1067 U.S. Rte. 1, Columbia Falls, 207-483-2583) is hard to miss — it’s that blueberry shaped dome, the one slightly resembling a grounded UFO. Venture inside and buy the fresh blueberry pies and the delicious blueberry scones.
If you’re looking for a heartier stop, each April the Downeast Salmon Federation (187 Main St., Columbia Falls, 207-483-4336, www.mainesalmonrivers.org) throws its annual smelt fry fund-raiser featuring smelts harvested in the Pleasant River basin. This year, six hundred people paid five dollars a head to eat the deep-fried fish served with sides, salads, and sweets.
Other News
ASF Action Alert: Support Alewife Restoration in the St. Croix Watershed Now!
The International Joint Commission (IJC) will be hosting a public hearing in Princeton, Maine on August 4th on their draft plan to restore alewives to the St. Croix River watershed.
Opening Day Public Hike at Pleasant River Community Forest
On august 10th from 4-6pm the public is invited to come to Columbia Falls for the Opening Day Hike at the Downeast Salmon Federation’s Pleasant River Community Forest. Attendees will get a guided tour of the property and its trail system, with a focus on fish and wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities.
Tensions run high over fate of Machias dike
By Craig Idlebrook
Working Waterfront
Marshfield farmer Chris Sprague is dressed in colonial garb for the Margaretta Days Festival in Machias, an event that commemorates a naval battle that occurred in local waters in 1775. Sprague sits at a picnic table and quietly expounds on the threat of governmental intrusion on personal liberty and property.
But Sprague isn't channeling a Revolutionary War character; he's talking about the fate over the bridge known as the dike on Route 1 in Machias. Residents in Marshfield and Machias are alarmed over Maine Department of Transportation's (MaineDOT) talk of replacing flappers under the bridge that keep tidal waters out of the Middle River. They fear the flappers will be removed and the ocean will come washing back into the river with a vengeance.
Columbia Falls smelt fry draws hundreds
By Sharon Kiley Mack
BDN Staff
COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine — Just feet from the basin of the Pleasant River, where thousands of smelts were netted earlier this year, a favorite custom was under way Friday night: the 10th annual Down East Salmon Federation Smelt Fry.
East Machias Salmon in New East Machias Hatchery
On New Years Eve the Downeast Salmon Federation (DSF) placed 20,000 endangered Atlantic salmon eggs into the incubation trays at the East Machias Aquatic research Center (EMARC) in downtown East Machias.
Dear Friends and Supporters of the Downeast Salmon Federation
I hope this letter finds you well prepared for the winter weather and fully engulfed in the spirit of the season! The snow and winds of near winter have now hit Washington County with a solid indication of the glories ahead.
Addison residents discuss bridge replacement
By Sharon Kiley Mack
BDN Staff
ADDISON, Maine — About sixty people, including more than half a dozen state and federal agency representatives, gathered Tuesday night at Addison Town Hall to hear about the proposed replacement of a dike bridge over the Pleasant River.
Public input sought on Machias dike project
By Sharon Kiley Mack
BDN Staff
MACHIAS, Maine — Nearby landowners are readying the arguments they will present to the Maine Department of Transportation when it holds a public hearing in December on the replacement of Dyke Bridge on Route 1, which crosses the mouth of the Middle River in Machias.
Streams, culverts focus of DEP plan
By Diana Bowley
BDN Staff
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Municipalities will see a fiscal impact if a Department of Environmental Protection proposal is adopted that will change the way culverts and other stream crossings are constructed, Piscataquis County commissioners learned Tuesday.
Aquatic center enters reconstruction phase
By Sharon Kiley Mack
BDN Staff
EAST MACHIAS, Maine — Five companies have submitted bids on the latest phase of reconstruction at the East Machias Aquatic Research Center, an educational and research facility along the riverfront.
More than 140 salmon found dead at hatchery
By Kevin Miller
BDN Staff
AUGUSTA, Maine — Federal biologists are investigating an apparent mechanical problem that killed more than 140 endangered adult Atlantic salmon at the Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery in East Orland.
US expands laws protecting Atlantic salmon
By Beth Daley
Globe Staff / June 16, 2009
The federal government dramatically extended protection yesterday for the imperiled wild Atlantic salmon in Maine, declaring that the few remaining sportfish in the Penobscot, Kennebec, and Androscoggin rivers and their tributaries are endangered.
DSF Key Partner in Multi-Year pH Mitigation Study
With shrinking state and federal budgets there has been less and less money available for the salmon restoration program in Maine, so when the DSF decided to take on a river chemistry research project we knew that we would have to do significant fund raising...
Creating a “Salmon Safe” Community Forest Downeast
In 2008, the DSF was awarded grant funds through the Maine Forest Service’s Project Canopy Program to plan and implement a trail system and interpretive signage for the Downeast Salmon Federations 424-acre “Salmon Safe” Community Forest adjacent to the Eastern Little River.
