It used to be more of a luxury to worry how fish might gain passage into the upper reaches of the Androscoggin River. The waterway — which passes through western Maine before ending in the midcoast — used to be so polluted that it killed fish by the millions. That contamination famously inspired U.S. Sen. Edmund... read full story
"With the improvement of the river and the remnant populations of the migratory fish that still come up it's really time to look back at the health of the river and the fish,"