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increase font size Groups urge Maine to protect last wild Atlantic salmon in U.S. A coalition of environmental groups and scientists say the fish could be afforded more protections if they were added to Maine s list of endangered and threatened species. By PATRICK WHITTLEAssociated Press Share a 4-year-old Atlantic salmon is held at the National Fish Hatchery in Nashua, N.H., in April 2012. Jim Cole/Associated Press Maine is home to the last wild Atlantic salmon populations in the U.S., but a new push to protect the fish at the state level is unlikely to land them on the endangered list.

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