Salmon Weir Site on the Dennys River
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Site of a stainless steel salmon weir used to count fish ascending the Denys River in the early 2000's. The wooden abutment on the Edmunds shore buttressed a 'V' shaped weir structure placed in the river by marine biologists each spring, and was removed before winter freezing occurred.
Salmon were caught in weirs in the Dennys river until 1935, when the Dennys River Salmon Club worked with the State of Maine to abolish the practice. A stainless steel fish weir was set across the river seasonally by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in the early 2000's to monitor the migration of dwindling salmon up the river. Though this has been discontinued, the list is marked and abutments on either side of the river to which the weir was attached are still clearly evident. For several years it was set in place in the spring and removed before freezing in the fall.
