A new book celebrates the return of fish to the Penobscot - The Ellsworth American
A new book celebrates the return of fish to the Penobscot Reviewed by Carl Little Special to The Ellsworth American You know that children’s song “Three Little Fishies” with its chorus, “And they swam swam swam right over the dam”? Were it that easy. In Peter Taylor’s “From the Mountains to the Sea: The Historic Restoration of the Penobscot River (Islandport Press, softbound, 146 pages, $24.95), dams stand in the way of fish — 12 sea-run species to be precise — and their survival. The removal or circumvention of said structures lies at the heart of this inspiring account of ...