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Page Updated:
- Winter 2009 issue of Merrymeeting News
- Newsflash: FOMB Salmon Lawsuit Successful!
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FERC Orders Preliminary Permit for Chops Tidal Project
Times Record Article - Welcome Misty Gorski as our NEW Executive Coordinator. email: fomb@gwi.net
- Updates on the suit against National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failure to act on the petition to list the Atlantic Salmon as endangered within the time required by the Endangered Species Act (5/16) Cybrary Link
- MPBN - Maine Things Considered Segment on the proposed Presumpscot Settlement Framework Agreeement (3/11) Audio Story
- FOMB joining to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries for not listing Kennebec River Atlantic salmon as endangered (2/18) Press Release
- Lawsuit eyed on behalf of salmon (2/19) Times Record Front Page Article
- MPBN - Maine Things Considered Segment on listing Salmon as Endangered (2/19) Audio Story
- Group will sue to protect salmon in Kennebec (2/20) Portland Press Herald and Kennebec Journal Article
- FOMB Takes Eel Appeal to Maine Supreme Court (12/4) Press Release
- Eel appeals renew dam debate (1/22) Times Record Front Page Article
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Current Issues
- Swan Island Alert Funding Approved by Legislature! More Help Needed!
- Send a Message to the Governor:
Stop the eel slaughter at hydro-electric dams.
Click here to print a letter to the Governor!
Screen the turbines.
We can have eels and electricity!
(you can either print out, stamp and mail OR save the document on your computer, add your personal info at the bottom, and then copy the text into the body of an email to to the governor at: governor@maine.gov).
Then please click here to let us know that you sent the letter!
To Learn More: Safe passage for the American eel at Kennebec & Andro River dams - Chops Hydropower proposal
More information about Merrymeeting Bay can be found HERE
The above link takes you to a Merrymeeting Bay website developed as a cooperative venture between Friends of Merrymeeting Bay and Bowdoin Central School