Acadia, UMaine researchers seek public’s help for fish survey, Mount Desert Islander reports
Acadia, UMaine researchers seek public’s help for fish survey, Mount Desert Islander reports
Mount Desert Islander reported researchers with Acadia National Park and the University of Maine are seeking help from the Mount Desert Island community to fill some gaps in a historical freshwater fish survey. Park biologist Bruce Connery, UMaine instructor Erik Reardon, Mount Desert Island Historical Society executive director Tim Garrity and Maine Sea Grant professional Natalie Springuel are asking MDI residents for information about the island’s freshwater fisheries to aid in conservation efforts, according to the article. “We are interested in how people used freshwater fisheries in their normal lives, whether it was for recreation or subsistence or to support summer residents, and in what capacity,” Connery said. Over a century ago, fisheries were not as regulated or monitored as they are today, so data on freshwater fisheries is either scant or nonexistent, the article states.