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Description
For several years in the 1970s, Maine Salmon Farms raised Pacific Coho salmon in the warm water outflow from Mason steam station in Wiscasset.
The warm water prevented icing and allowed the young fish to grow even in the cold winter months.
About This Item
- Title: Maine Salmon Farms harvest, Mason Station, Wiscasset, 1974
- Creator: P. G. Thompson
- Creation Date: 1974
- Subject Date: 1974
- Location: Wiscasset, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 2115, Box 310/Aquaculture
- Collection: Central Maine Power Company collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Central Maine Power Company
- Coho salmon
- Electricity--Maine--Wiscasset
- Harvesting--Maine--Wiscasset
- Power plants--Maine--Wiscasset
- Salmon farming
- Steam power plants
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