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Legislature's Natural Resources Committee held a public hearing on LD 1282 "An Act To Protect and Enhance Maine Marine Fisheries." The bill would requires the owners of hydropower dams in Maine to enable safe and reliable passage over or around them for Maine's diadromous fishes.

This recording is 14 minutes of testimony by Kerry Hardy of Rockland, who lays out the historic distribution of diadromous fishes in Maine, their management over the last century and a half, and urges the bill be passed