The Alaska Journal of Commerce

Web posted Sunday, December 14, 2008

PHOTO: Salmon farms save Maine industry

AP Photos/Robert F. Bukaty

Brian Wheeler, hatchery manager for Cooke Aquaculture, examines 6-month-old Atlantic salmon parr at a hatchery in Bingham, Maine. Salmon are raised in carefully monitored conditions to prevent diseases.

Salmon harvester Erik Bagley poses with salmon harvested from a pen near Eastport, Maine. Bagley works for Cooke Aquaculture, a Canadian company whose $60 million investment saved the salmon farming industry in Maine. Maine's salmon farming industry collapsed five years ago, but is now staging a comeback with new business owners and new technology.

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