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Very interesting. The fish in the trap seemed pretty calm which surprised me.

This is wonderful footage. I appreciated your written commentary that you provided as the video proceeds. This "mini-documentary" reveals a snapshot of the efforts put forth by the state biologists showing the extensive work and time that is put into data collection, which is only a part of the biologists responsibilities. I enjoyed seeing this very much as I really didn't know the process of how they are able to collect data and then make important decisions on the fisheries. I appreciate their efforts even more now and thank you for your part in providing this enlightening video! Well done.

I always wondered how the fish biologists caught the fish to collect data on. This was really cool to see!

The more people see what really goes on to preserve the fishery, the less they'll complain about fishing regulations.

Great video and I love how clear the water is at the end of the video.

Is this brownville schoodic or Cherryfield?

To many small fish, you would think they could see that

having caught bothe Land Lock Salmon and Brook Trout up at Moosehead lake i love Maine and the Fisheries and the good people who help keep it going

Thank you for sharing this work by the fishery biologists. Interesting to watch!

4:10 - A small sturgeon- impressive as hell, these are extremely rare. In general there are a lot more fish than I usually expect to see in these rivers. I've dove in all of Maine's major rivers. This footage shows more sediment in the water than the Kennebec usually hass, I wonder if it was taken near the outflow pipe of Gardiner's water treatment plant, because that is what it looks like (I have dove in such locations before, it is a good way to immediately get an ear infection). In this part of the Kennebec it does notmater whether you are upstream or downstream of the pipe as the current reverses with the tide. Not too far Upstream from here I've' dove a lot, I was helping an environmental engineering firm install monitoring equipment to monitor a Superfund toxic waste site on the river bottom - it is where for a century or so coal tar was dumped into the river from the old Augusta coal gas plant (it closed in the 1950's). There is a huge, huge area where the river bottom is like a parking lot, if you did into it for a sample black smoke erupts from the bottom, where the black smoke hits your skin it hurts, after the dive the skin turns red and peels like a severe sunburn over the next few days even after you wash as well as you can after the dive. It is due to the polycyclic hydrocarbons in the sediment. This is why I will never eat a fish caught in the Kennebec. This footage is taken near where in the 1950's as a bridge was being built a revolutionary war cannon forged in Paul Revere' foundry was found, there was a big Revolutionary War defeat to the British that occured here, interestingly Paul Revere himself was there, There is a riverfront park in Augusta, near the downstream corner near a Marina there is a wall on the River that makes a corner - right there is a spot that a little brook of coal tar liquid breaks out of a steep slope and ever so slowly flows into deeper water. If you look at the hulls of the boats in the marina there is a ring of dark brown coal tar scum at the water line, this is from a small portion of the coal tar that is light enough to float, it slowly bubbles up from the bottom at low tide, when the hydrostatic pressure is lowest. This superfund site is quite bad - not as bad as (although considerably larger than) the Holter Chem site in the Penobscot, where a chemical company illegally dumped mercury waste to save disposal fees. The guy got away with it for many years, when discovered it ended his business thankfully, I think the guy went to prison over it. Commercial divers like myself have refuse to dive there, because the one guy who did had his skin peel over his entire body. It's bad news. All this stuff after many years just remains in place, it is incredibly expensive to remediate - nearly impossible. And political deals can occur which act to prevent anything from ever being done, I know about one of them.

Cool

Great video! Such detail!

Where this @?

Belgrade Lake Long Pond?

Awesome

Atlantic Salmon swaggers & says, “I’m the big boy here & clearly the one you want to mix with your genes.” What remarkable footage. Well done! This is the first time I’ve actually seen live video of an Atlantic salmon from such a close up view. It gives me some hope that they can recover. I’ll bet the biologists at Maine Fisheries & Wildlife would love a copy of this video. I wonder if they would agree with your idea about a year holdover. Since Atlantics & landlocks are supposed to have the same genes , I wonder if the fish themselves see any difference & whether any offspring would want to migrate to the ocean.

Certainly caught the distinctly different coloring! Nice

Theyre on the spawning shoals huh? Time to go fishing I suppose

Ah Im glad I watched it a second time and read the notes. I didn't notice the fin clip on the first watch through. Good eye.

That old boy needs to be in the gene pool!

You can really see the big size difference in the sea-run versus landlocked salmon. Awesome footage!

Incredible! Great footage!

It looks like a wolf

Thank you!!! What a great shot!!

Magnificent fish.

Thank you for cleaning up the lake

Beautiful footage!

Are you sure those are shiners and not alewife? It looks like Boyd does connect to the Penobscot, which has been having record runs recently.

I lost a big Murray spoon down there back in the seventies.

Impressive. Can you show us what equipment you are using?

Awesome!!

Love diving this pond. Saw a horned pout by that junk of pork rock this summer. Was unreal. Huge.

Pretty darn cool! How deep of water were they congregating? Not looking to fish just genuinely curious

Amazing footage once again. Love how that one around 7:00 let you get a real good look up close!

I wonder if MAIN stocks that lake and what in that lake that lake they eat??

Very interesting! Thanks!

Probably best to just show the footage and not share what lakes the footage is coming from

Brilliant footage! Incredible to see so many salmon, and males in spawning colors

Awesome!

A 24" lake trout is 20 years old and they can live for 70 years

Excellent footage there bub, VERY nice!

Wow! What a find! Whole 7 bottles... I'm sure archeologists all over the world watching this with amazement. What a luck!

omg full bottle of vodka first 5 min! ! i bet some teenagers dropped it when they stole their daddy’s boat and were soooooo disappointed that night 😢

Wow! That is an amazing number of those beautiful salmon. They must be pretty single-minded. They were barely noticing your drone.

so cool! i’m curious to know… what is the deepest your drone will go?!

me and my toddler son were just watching your amazing videos on our living room tv. we were SO captivated!! keep them up and i’m still hoping you will go check out mattawamkeag lake where my family’s camp is. my (late) grandparents drove through the ice in the 60’s and maybe their truck is still at the bottom!(i honestly can’t remember!! but i’ll try to find out)

Sometime in the middle of November, biologists take eggs and milt at a small place on panther run. They've been doing it for years . Just an FYI

Nice! So real-such a treat to see this video!

very cool! what partof the lake is this at?

Love the salmon jumping! Excellent video!