Finding Solutions to Protect Quantabacook Lake Alewives

Event Location: Merryspring Nature Center, Camden/Rockport, Maine

Event Date/Time: Tuesday, February 16 at 12:00 pm.

Terry Young of Georges River Trout Unlimited will lead an online webinar about efforts to protect sea run fish species in Quantabacook Lake hosted by Merryspring Nature Center on Tuesday, February 16 at 12:00 pm.

The dam on Quantabacook Lake in Waldo, Maine is approximately 500 feet long with a 90-foot spillway. Each May, nearly 140,000 alewives enter the lake to spawn and then return to salt water by the end of June. By late summer, young fish begin their journey to the sea. However, recent dry summers and low water levels have prevented many fish from returning to the ocean. In this presentation, Terry Young will speak about how the US Fish and Wildlife, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Quantabacook Lake Association, and Georges River Trout Unlimited are working together to find solutions to this problem. In this program, Young will be joined by US Fish and Wildlife Service specialist Scott Craig who will share how USFWS have taken a lead role in the project.

 

Young has been the president of Georges River Trout Unlimited for the last three and a half years. Trout Unlimited is a national conservation origination with over 180,000 members with a mission statement to conserve, protect, and restore our nation’s cold water species.

 

This talk is part of Merryspring’s Online Winter Talk series, sponsored by Allen Insurance & Financial. All Online Talks will be held as Zoom webinars. Access to a computer or smart device is required. All guests must request a meeting link by emailing info@merryspring.org to attend. Links will be emailed on the morning of 2/16.

Online Talks are open to everybody, free of charge.

Merryspring is your community nature center offering walking trails, cultivated gardens, wildlife, and ecology and horticulture educational programs all year round. The park is located at the end of Conway Road, just off of Route 1 in Camden behind Hannaford Shopping Plaza. For more information on this program, please contact info@merryspring.org or call 207-236-2239.