BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 30, 2024
Sebago Lake is one of four lakes in Maine that had indigenous wild strains of Atlantic salmon. Now it has the largest and most robust population, and possibly the only nearly self-sustaining one of the four. One of the major tributaries, the Crooked River, until recently had a 200-plus-year-old dam on it, but it also represents more than 80 percent of the Sebago salmon’s spawning grounds. The Edes Falls dam was in the way of more progress in the state’s efforts to restore the Sebago watershed fishery. Since its removal the river is back to its original state for the salmon, the salmon are doing well in the lake and there are a lot of the fish in the 62-mile-long Crooked River.