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In its third year of a five-year experimental pen rearing project, 26,000 landlocked Atlantic salmon smolts were recently stocked into net pens, held for 3 weeks, then released into Lake Champlain. Another 26,000 smolts were stocked directly into the Saranac River.
Comparing the returns between the two stocking methods will determine if pen rearing results in greater survival and homing than conventional, direct stocking.
Click the link below to watch the salmon being transported to their pens.
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