Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). (Region 5).

The Ducktrap Coalition, a private conservation group dedicated to the protection of riparian habitat along the Ducktrap River in Maine, has announced that 80 percent of the streamside habitat is now protected either through fee title or conservation easement. The Ducktrap is one of the rivers that support the listed Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment of Atlantic salmon. Similar efforts are underway to protect other rivers in the area that harbor the listed salmon. The Service recently announced a Recovery Land Acquisition Grant to Maine under section 6 of the ESA to obtain an easement from the International Paper company for protecting much of the habitat adjacent to the Machias river, another DPS component.

Reported by Shane Jones in the Service's West Virginia Field Office.