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FILE - In this April 2, 2012 file photo, Michael West holds on to a 4-year-old Atlantic Salmon at the National fish Hatchery in Nashua, N.H. The New Brunswick, Canada-based Atlantic Salmon Federation says total estimated returns of the fish to North America in 2016 was a little more than a half million salmon. That is a 27 percent decrease from the previous year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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Conservationists: Imperiled Atlantic salmon decline worsens

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJune 18, 2017

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2010 file photo, moose graze in Franconia, N.H. Fewer moose are up for grabs during Maine's 2014 moose hunt because of the deadly impact of ticks the previous year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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Moose healthy in Maine despite struggles

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMay 17, 2017

In this Oct. 5 photo, distressed and dying hemlock trees are seen at Harvard University's research forest in Petersham.

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Bugs butchering America’s forests

by Michael Casey Associated Press, and Patrick Whittle Associated PressDecember 8, 2016

In this Oct. 21, 2016 photo, students arrive at Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Maine. The town of Falmouth is one of several municipalities around the country that has canceled school on Election Day to avoid placing children at risk in case the heated rhetoric spills into confrontations or even violence at the polling places. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Fearing Election Day trouble, some schools cancel classes

by Patrick Whittle Associated Press, and David Sharp Associated PressOctober 25, 2016

FILE - In this June 20, 2014, file photo, Frank Carlson breaks a claw off a lobster at the Sea Hag Seafood processing plant in St. George, Maine. Retail prices for lobsters have remained high into September 2016 with consumers typically paying a few dollars more than the previous year. A market analyst said the growing demand for processed lobster products could keep the price high in the future. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Higher lobster prices could be sign of things to come

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressSeptember 10, 2016

FILE - In this July 14, 2016 file photo, Lilly Caron, of Bridgeton, Maine, Jason Homchick, of San Diego, and Lilly's father Jason Caron, (obscured), ride the Sky Swing at Seacoast Adventure outdoor summer attractions park in Wyndham, Maine. Some protectors of Maine's image as a vacation destination are playing defense after remarks by Gov. Paul LePage spawned a backlash and postings on social media to boycott the state. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

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Maine hopes to save its Vacationland image amid boycott call

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressSeptember 2, 2016

The head of a North Atlantic right whale peers up from the water as another whale passes behind in Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, in April 2008. An August 2016 study found that the ability of the endangered whale species to recover is jeopardized by increasing rates of entanglement in fishing gear and a resultant drop in birth rates.

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Study: Right whales declining

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressSeptember 1, 2016

A blue mussel clings to a rock at Mount Desert Island, on the Maine coast, in this 2014 photo provided by the University of California, Irvine.

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Mussels vanishing from NE waters

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressAugust 28, 2016

A blue crab sits on the deck between two blocks of Organobait synthetic bait after it was caught out of the Great Wicomico river in Heathsville, Va. Fisheries for lobsters and crabs have grappling with a shortage of bait that synthetic bait may help with. Below, commercial crabber Mal Luebkert pulls a crab pot out of the Great Wicomico river.

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Biotech bait an alternative for lobstermen

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressAugust 26, 2016

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Lobster fishermen face new limits

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJuly 31, 2016