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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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