Maine is a renowned fishing destination championed by a statewide team of fisheries biologists working to provide exceptional angling opportunities while enhancing, preserving, and protecting our inland fisheries. This is (modern-day) Maine Fisheries Management. Maine’s fisheries biologists frequent our waters in all seasons to conduct creel surveys, assess habitat, monitor water quality, conduct research, and sample fish through trap netting, gillnetting, trawling, electrofishing, seining, and

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The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is conducting their annual moose population survey. Three IFW wildlife biologists, including moose biologist Lee Kantar, fly selected areas each year in a number of wildlife management districts across the state. The IFW crew does both population surveys and composition counts. The population survey is a number count, and the composition counts give biologists a glimpse at the compilation of the population, including the number of bulls compared to