He became an activist on the issue a dozen years ago whenstateofficials discussed an effort to combat the frogs on the Big Island by bombing them with a diluted caffeine spray in an effort to give them heart attacks.
The problem is that the fish that formed the base of the hatchery brood stock used to replenish salmon in Maine's rivers came from the Penobscot River until 1992, whenstateofficials began a river-specific stocking program that placed descendents only in rivers their stock came from.