ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth-Downeast Trout Unlimited annual meeting April 22 will be a jammed pack event beginning at 5:30 p.m. with officer elections, a Rising Trout Award announcement, followed by Cody Dillingham outlining Penobscot Nation river restoration projects and ending with a raffle drawing.
The meeting will be at the Moore Community Center 125 State St. In person and online. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1YpzuGCUSja3kxCpfIuaKQ.
The Penobscot Indian Nation’s Fisheries program has completed more than 20 habitat restoration projects in the last 15 years, including improving or replacing road-stream crossings, dams and other barriers to aquatic organism movement, with the goal of restoring and protecting Atlantic salmon and other sea-run migratory fishes.
Dillingham is the fisheries biologist for the Penobscot Indian Nation’s Department of Natural Resources. For the last two years he has been leading two habitat restoration projects on Sam Ayers Stream. He earned a masters in wildlife ecology at the University of Maine, where he researched migratory fish dam passage and distribution in impounded habitats in the Penobscot and Kennebec River basins.
The business meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by the talk and time for socializing. Meetings are free and open to the public. Contact tammy Packie [email protected] for information.
Downeast Trout Unlimited is dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring Maine’s cold water fisheries and their watersheds. Visit www.downeasttu.org or Downeast TU on Facebook.
