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Friends of Merrymeeting Bay to host Zoom event about Maine’s sea run fishes
The event will feature research biologists from the Department of Marine Resources.
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Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s second presentation of their 24th annual Winter Speaker Series, Searching for Smelt: Citizen Science & Maine’s Sea Run Fishes, will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, via Zoom. It will feature Claire Enterline and Danielle Frechette, research biologists with Maine’s Department of Marine Resources. This is the conservation organization’s second ever virtual meeting presentation.
According to a news release from the organization, just as serious cold bites Maine, and smelt camps finally hit the river ice, days are lengthening and it’s important to remember spring is just around the corner, and it’s not just mud season. Spring is when rainbow smelt swim up coastal streams to lay their eggs. These silvery little fish are important ecologically, economically, and culturally