Peter Gray Parr Project in the Media
Saving Atlantic Salmon: The Peter Gray Parr Project
By Tom Keer, New England Boating
A new way of raising and stocking juvenile Atlantic salmon is paving the way to the species’ recovery in the United States.
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All for the Cost of a Dollar a Parr
By Tom Keer, Sporting Classics Daily
Part of what came from my golf miscue is a wonderful fascination with the word spelled with two “r”s. Parr with that extra consonant refers to a young salmon feeding in freshwater. Theirs is an odyssey of epic proportions and is one that has intrigued and inspired anglers, biologists, and conservationists for many years.
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Hatchery working to heal the river, heal the fish
By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News
On the banks of the East Machias River, in an old hydropower facility, Dwayne Shaw and others are working to not only change the way Atlantic salmon conservation is done, but also how the area’s rivers are treated.
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200,000 Salmon Being Released into Downeast River
By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News
About 14,000 new residents of Washington County made their debut Tuesday as they were poured, one bucket after another, into a tributary of the East Machias River.
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Raising Athletes: Why the Peter Gray Hatchery may be the last hope of Atlantic salmon in America
By Ross Purnell, Fly Fisherman Magazine
Atlantic salmon recovery so far in America has been an expensive failure. In 2012 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service abandoned its 50-year salmon recovery program on the Connecticut River that cost roughly $25 million over that timespan—most of that money supporting the production of salmon fry raised at the Richard Cronin National Salmon Station…
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The Can Do Crew
By Catherine Schmitt, Atlantic Salmon Journal
Just forty miles east of the Penobscot, America’s best hope for Atlantic salmon restoration, the Downeast salmon rivers flow through boulder-strewn blueberry barrens, and scraggy logging yards cut from mossy forests of spruce and fir. Here, the dams are few and getting fewer, and the salmon are still genetically unique, native, and wild. There is hope here, too.
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Help us Restore Maine's Wild Atlantic Salmon Population
$1 per parr. Restore one or restore thousands. All donations will make a difference!
The goal of the Peter Gray Parr Project is to increase the number of parr raised and stocked to over 2,000,000. At an estimated cost of just over $1 per parr, we must raise 2.2 million dollars to support this restoration. For every dollar donated, contributors will quite literally be putting more parr in the East Machias River and directly impacting the restoration of Maine's wild Atlantic salmon population.
PETER GRAY PARR PROJECT GOAL
Restore over 2,000,000 Wild Atlantic Salmon Parr to the East Machias River.
GOAL TRACKER
Financial progress towards restoring over 2,000,000 Wild Atlantic Salmon Parr into the East Machias River
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