Agency Says Dam Should Come Down

摘要

For the past 160 years, even 2-meter-long Atlantic sturgeon have been no match foi the Edwards Dam. Although this 6-meter wall on Maine's Kennebec River is tiny compared to its more famous western cousins, such as the Hoover Dam, it has effectively blocked sturgeon, salmon, and eight other species of migratory fish from reaching their historic spawning grounds upriver. Denied these miles of shallow pools--which now lie buried beneath blankets of sand in deep water--the Kennebec's once bountiful fishpopulations have plunged.