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Group fights for eel protection

Posted by Elliott Teel on December 31, 2007

The Friends of Merrymeeting Bay are asking the state’s highest court to overturn a lower court’s decision to not intervene in a ruling by Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP).

At issue is downstream passage for the American Eel. The BEP found that there was not enough evidence to show that the eel population is at risk.  The lower court ruled that it did not authority to review the BEP decision.

- via PressHerald

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