NFC's Bob Mallard Defends Green Lake Arctic Charr in Bangor Daily News
“While long classified as a native population, IFW’s recent attempts to draw the origin of Green Lake’s Arctic charr into question is based on subjective and inconclusive data. While both the lake and its outlet appear to have been stocked with Arctic charr fry from Floods Pond in the late 1800s, this in and of itself is not enough to say that the charr are introduced.”
NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard challenges Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife recent attempts to draw the origin of Green Lake’s Arctic charr into question—for the third time…
The data is clear, Green Lake is one of just 12 native Arctic charr populations left in the contiguous United States. But rather than nurture it, MDIFW chooses to stock it with nonnative and highly invasive to Arctic charr, lake trout…
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“To say Green Lake is unique from a native fish species assemblage standpoint would be accurate. To say it has the most unique species assemblage in Maine, and possibly the northeast, would not be unreasonable. The idea that three exceedingly rare coldwater fish coevolved in the watershed makes Green Lake a natural resource of state, regional and national significance.”
Dr. Michael Kinnison, University of Maine