Salmon Shorts Part 4: Human Impacts
Channel: Maine Audubon Media
Date: 28/04/2021

Maine Audubon participates annually in the Atlantic Salmon Federation’s educational Fish Friends program to highlight the significance of wild Atlantic Salmon. Raising salmon provides a concrete and accessible entry point into many topics that are important to our work: habitat needs and interdependence, stream connectivity and river restoration, and the power of bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge together with western science. Through Fish Friends, participating classrooms and organizations like Maine Audubon receive eggs from local hatcheries and raise them through the beginning of their life cycle. Then, with expert guidance, the young salmon are released  in local waterways. We want to show you our salmon via a series of short videos. In Part 4, we explore the impacts that humans have on Atlantic Salmon. Visit maineaudubon.org/fishfriends to learn more.