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RUMFORD - Suspended sediments flushing down the Androscoggin River following last week's catastrophic rain storm in Bethel, Gilead and Newry aren't going to harm big fish at all. It's the little guys - the fry - that will be more susceptible to stress and death, according to state fisheries biologists.
The bigger problem, however, is if pollutants, toxins or nitrogen- rich fertilizers were swept along in the soup, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife spokesman Mark Latti said by phone Thursday afternoon in Augusta.See the full content of this document
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Biologists Ponder Fate of Fish
"Silt in the water by itself, generally, doesn't present much of a hazard to the fish," he said, attributing his information to P...
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