If you got here from the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
website, WELCOME to the Friends of the Kennebec Salmon website. Click on
the leaping Kennebec salmon above for an overview and site map of the most
comprehensive resource in the world for the Kennebec River and its wild
Atlantic salmon.
Friends of the Kennebec Salmon volunteers Monica Castellanos
and Douglas Watts at the educational sign FKS erected in cooperation with
the City of Augusta at the head of tide of Bond Brook in Augusta, Maine.
FKS received funding assistance from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
for the sign, which was created by.Spurwink Signs of Gardiner, Maine with
design assistance and installation by FKS volunteers.
Bond Brook Falls, Augusta, Maine, 1998.
Twenty-five years ago, a dam was located at this falls and Bond Brook was
severely polluted. Today, the dam is gone, the severe pollution is gone,
and Bond Brook now supports a run of wild Kennebec River Atlantic salmon.
Now the run of wild Atlantic salmon in Bond Brook is threatened by the rampant
commercial development of its watershed.
Wild Atlantic Salmon Fry, Bond Brook, Augusta, Maine. May 5, 1999.
Each May, the riffles and pools of Bond Brook are alive with newly emerged
wild Atlantic salmon fry from eggs deposited by wild females the previous
fall. The ability of these young salmon fry to survive depends on clean,
high quality stream habitat. Friends of the Kennebec Salmon is working to
protect the home of these young fry. Commercial development, road run-off
and other disturbances to the Bond Brook watershed all contribute to reducing
the chance that the young fry above will survive to return as 10 to 15 lb.
wild Kennebec River Atlantic salmon in the future.
To see in-depth maps of Bond Brook, click here.
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