BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 13, 2024
Maine’s brook trout fisheries face some serious threats, including climate change that warms their waters and invasive species that eat their food. A first-of-its-kind state study will teach biologists what they need to know to help Maine’s heritage species of game fish survive. Mooselookmeguntic is the state’s fifth largest lake. There is no ice fishing allowed and its fishery is native. It is one of hundreds of Maine State Heritage Fish waters, which means the state cannot stock it. That’s an increasingly rare treasure in Maine and one that several groups want to protect. Once the study’s data is[sic] in hand, a community advisory group will be convened to figure out how to use it and to build a management plan.