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Arctic charr management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Black bass management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Brook trout management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Brown trout management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Burbot management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Lake trout management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Landlocked salmon management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Muskellunge management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Northern pike management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Pickerel management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Rainbow trout management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Smelt management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Splake management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

White perch management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Whitefish management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Minor sportfish management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Non-sport and commercial management plan (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife) - Acrobat file

Bonney, F. R. In press. Maine Brook Trout: Biology, Conservation, Management. University of Maine Press.

Bowes, K., J. Le, and J.R. Moring. 1999. Fishes and other aquatic resources of Acadia National Park. Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Maine. Orono, Maine 04469. 120 pp.

Cooper, G.P. 1939. A biological survey of thirty-one lakes and ponds of the upper Saco river and Sebago lake drainage systems in Maine. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.

Cooper, G.P. 1940. A biological survey of the Rangeley lakes, with special reference to the trout and salmon. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.

Cooper, G.P. 1941. A biological survey of lakes and ponds of the Androscoggin and Kennebec river drainage systems in Maine. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.

Cooper, G.P. 1942. A biological survey of lakes and ponds of the central coast area of Maine. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.

Cooper, G.P. and J.L. Fuller. 1945. A biological survey of Moosehead Lake and Haymock Lake, Maine. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.

Fuller, J.L. and G.P. Cooper. 1946. A biological survey of the lakes and ponds of Mount Desert Island, and the Union and Lower Penobscot river drainage systems. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game.

Fenderson, O.C. 1964. Evidence of subpopulations of lake whitefish, Coregonus cluepeaformis, involving a dwarfed form. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 93: 77-94.

Gaenzle, E. 2002. Relationships between stream geomorphology and fish community structure and diversity in Maine. M.S. thesis, University of Maine, Orono. 60 pp.

Halliwell, D. 2005. Introduced fish in Maine. On-line article in PEARL.

Halliwell, D.B., T.R. Whittier and N.H. Ringler. 2001. Distributions of lake fishes of the northeast USA – III. Salmonidae and associated coldwater species. Northeastern Naturalist 8(2): 189-206.

Kircheis, F.W., J.G. Trial, D.P. Boucher, B. Mower, T. Squiers, N. Gray, M. O’Donnell and J. Stahlnecker. 2002. Analysis of impacts related to the introduction of anadromous alewives into a small freshwater lake in central Maine, USA. Interagency Report Series No. 02-1, Maine Dept. of Marine Resources, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection, and Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. 53 pp.

MDIFW. 2002. Fishes of Maine. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Augusta, Maine. 38 pp.

Moring, J.R., B.C. Le and J. Stone. 2001. Fish resources of Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Final report to the National Park Service, Acadia National Park. 91 pp. + app.

Whittier, T.R. and R.M. Hughes. 1998. Evaluation of fish species tolerances to environmental stressors in Northeast USA lakes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 18: 236-252.

Whittier, T.R. and T.M. Kincaid. 1999. Introduced fish in Northeast USA lakes: regional extent, dominance, and effect on native species richness. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 128: 769-783.

Whittier, T.R., D.B. Halliwell and R.A. Daniels. 1999. Distributions of lake fishes in the Northeast – I: Centrarchidae, Percidae, Esocidae, and Moronidae. Northeastern Naturalist 6(4): 283-304.

Whittier, T.R., D.B. Halliwell and R.A. Daniels. 2000. Distributions of lake fishes in the Northeast – II. The minnows (Cyprinidae). Northeastern Naturalist 7(2): 131-156.

Whittier, T.R., D.B. Halliwell and R.A. Daniels. 2001. Distributions of lake fishes in the Northeast – IV: Benthic and small water-column species. Northeastern Naturalist 8(4): 455-482.

Whittier, T.R., D.B. Halliwell and S.G. Paulsen. 1997. Cyprinid distribution in Northeast USA lakes: evidence of regional-scale minnow biodiversity losses. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54: 1593-1607.



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