Maine Eats--Aquaculture


Maine Salmon Farms harvest, Mason Station, Wiscasset, 1974

Maine Salmon Farms harvest, Mason Station, Wiscasset, 1974
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Maine Historical Society

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.

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