Coghlan’s Work at Trout Camp Mentioned in Morning Sentinel Article

Steve Coghlan, an associate professor of freshwater fisheries at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Morning Sentinel article about the Maine Trout Unlimited Trout Camp in Solon. The weeklong camp is sponsored by Trout Unlimited, a national organization that works to conserve coldwater fisheries. Throughout the camp participants fish, learn to tie flies and cast, and study the ecosystem and biology of the Kennebec River. Coghlan is a camp instructor who teaches the students about seine fishing, a method of capturing fish using a large net that usually works best on lakes and ponds or slow-moving water. Coghlan said the camp is mostly about getting students to think about sustainability and the human impact on ecology. “Many popular fisheries, not necessarily this one, but many, are collapsing because they are harvested unsustainably,” Coghlan told campers. “That’s something that you guys coming into this world are going to have to deal with. It’s up to you to think sustainably, to think are we living sustainably and can we sustain ourselves.”