BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 16, 2025
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife hopes a new survey will tell state biologists how far north invasive Northern pike are in the Penobscot River. The survey, expected to begin possibly as soon as next week, will include trapnetting and tagging up to 500 pike in the inlet and outlet of Pushaw Lake. Pike pose a threat to native species of fish such as brook trout and landlocked salmon because they can quickly eat up the food supply. The attitude of fishermen in the early 2000s was to get the pike out of the lake, but now they want to fish for them.