AUGUSTA. Among the 100s of bills that the Maine state legislature will consider during this 129th legislative session are three that could help direct the future of Maine's biggest bay.
The bills
1. Bring forward a nomination to enroll Penobscot Bay in the National Estuary Program
2. Focus research identifying pollutants within the upper bay and lower Penobscot River that could be interfering with Atlantic Salmon smoltification success. (transitioning from freshwater to saltwater respiration and shape)
3. Require cumulative impacts review of salmon effluents whenever more than one RAS plant is proposed in a single estuary.
Why? Along with waste products, salmon naturally secrete a variety of peptide-based signal chemicals through their skin. These are signal molecules, not toxins. They keep schooling salmon aware of each other.
Concentrated from tens of thousand of fish and discharged 24/7 via single outfalls, these natural signal chemicals will create the ambience of a vast stationary school of salmon filling these waters.
The bills
1. Bring forward a nomination to enroll Penobscot Bay in the National Estuary Program
2. Focus research identifying pollutants within the upper bay and lower Penobscot River that could be interfering with Atlantic Salmon smoltification success. (transitioning from freshwater to saltwater respiration and shape)
3. Require cumulative impacts review of salmon effluents whenever more than one RAS plant is proposed in a single estuary.
Why? Along with waste products, salmon naturally secrete a variety of peptide-based signal chemicals through their skin. These are signal molecules, not toxins. They keep schooling salmon aware of each other.
Concentrated from tens of thousand of fish and discharged 24/7 via single outfalls, these natural signal chemicals will create the ambience of a vast stationary school of salmon filling these waters.
The Penobscot Estuary/Bay complex is the
Royal R. Casco Bay largest along this stretch of coast
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