geneticswag t1_jb7xl6e wrote on March 7, 2023 at 2:36 AM

Brookfield is literally a cartoon villain.

dj_1973 t1_jb8ymg1 wrote on March 7, 2023 at 9:11 AM

Yup. They own several dams on the Kennebec as well, and refuse to allow adequate fish passage.

HIncand3nza t1_jb94nei wrote on March 7, 2023 at 10:39 AM

Some of those dams the state doesn’t want fish passage through to protect fish downstream. For example the Brassau dam. Above it there are smallmouth bass. Downstream in the moose river and Moosehead you have a good landlocked salmon fishery.

That one is also a Brookfield dam

geneticswag t1_jbbvodb wrote on March 7, 2023 at 10:42 PM

Don't kid yourself, Brookfield doesn't give a dam about separating species. There are plenty of reports of smallies in the moose going back a decade. I can't verify the accuracy of this tag from 2015, but you can see someone claiming their kid caught one there.

Not only do they not provide adequate fish passage, but they also to an atrocious job protecting the juvenile fish beneath their hydroelectric dams. On average dams trip for multiple hours four times a year, reducing river flows by upward of 85%, resulting in mass casualties and stranding's of salmon and trout. I can say this first hand as I participated in a citizen survey sponsored by trout unlimited as part of Brookfield's federal obligation to perform a study on the impact of these trip events this past October on the West Branch Penobscot. It's a bad scene. These guys are crooks who are profiting from our natural resources and we should put them out of business.