An Act To Improve and Promote Maine's Landlocked Salmon Resouurces
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0807
Sponsors: DAMON, DAVIS, DUCHESNE, PERCY, PERRY, SAVIELLO, WATSON, WELSH

, Legislative Document 
No. 807 
S.P.315 
In Senate, March 3, 2009, 
An Act To Improve and Promote Maine's Landlocked Salmon 
Resouurces 
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildli'fe suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Senator DAMON of Hancock. 
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JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Cosponsored by Representatives: DAVIS of Sangerville, DUCHESNE of Hudson, EBERLE.of 
South POliland, PERCY of Phippsburg, PERRY of Calais, SAVIELLO of Wilton, WATSON 
of Bath, WELSH of Rockport.' 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the}'eople of t~e State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 12 MR8A §12462 is enacted to read: 
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§12462. Management of landlocked salmon 
1. 'Salmon management. By October 1, 2009, the commissioner shall: 
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A. Initiate a pilot project to stock Echo Lake and Eagle Lake on Mount Desert Island 
with fall fingerling hatchery salmon on an alternate-year basis; and 
B. Initiate the rule-maldng process to restrict salmon fishing to catch and release on 
one or more waters where salmon is the primary fishery. 
2. Large landlocked salmon. By July 1; 2014, the commissioner shall manage no 
fewer'than 75 inland waters to ensure that a significant' portion of the landlocked salmon 
populations within those waters contain salmon that exceed 4 pounds in weight. 
3. Report. Beginning January 15,2010, the commissioner'shall report aIlllUally by 
January 15th to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
inland fisheries and wildlife matters about the progress made toward meeting the 
requirements of this section. 
Rules adopted pursuant to this sectiori are routine.technical rules as dermed in Title 5, 
chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. 
Sec. 2. Experimental landlocked salmon brood! stock program. By October 
1, 2009, the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall initiate as-year 
experimental program to enhance salmon brood stock by taldng salmon eggs exclusively 
from salmon brood stock that is 5 years of age or older and develop a new salmon brood 
stock soUrce composed of wild salmon. During the pro gram, the Commissioner of Inland 
Fisheries and Wildlife shall provide no later than January 15th annually to the joint 
standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over inland fisheries and 
wildlife matters an update on the program. 
SUMMARY 
This bill provides that by no later than July 1, 2014 that no fewer than 75 inland 
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waters containing landlocked salmon will be managed to produce salmon thai exceed 4 
pounds in weight. It also provides that, by October 1, 2009, the Commissioner of Iriland 
Fisheries and Wildlife will initiate: 
1. A pilot project to stock Echo Lake and Eagle Lake on Mount Desert Island with 
only fall fingerling hatchery salmon on an alternate-year basis; and 
2. The rule-making process to restrict salmon fishing to catch and release on one or 
more waters where salmon is the primary fishery. 
Finally, this bill provides that, by October 1; 2009, the Commissioner of Inland 
Fisheries and Wildlife will initiate a 5-year experimental program to enhance landlocked 
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. salmon brood stock by taking landlocked salmon eggs from salmon brood stock that is 5 
years of age or older and develop a new landlocked salmon brood stock source composed 
of wild salmon.