Click to download the Maine Council of Trout Unlimted's position statement for testimony on LD1853.
Maine Trout Camp is a week-long camp designed to build the next generation of conservationists. It's a learning experience of a lifetime. Click here to apply, help out or donate to Trout Camp.
Visit our Brook Trout Ponds page and volunteer to help us survey Maine's Brook Trout Ponds.
Trout Unlimited
Trout Unlimited is a national organization with more than 140,000 volunteers organized into about 400 chapters from Maine to Alaska. Click here to visit the national website.
Our Mission in the State of Maine
The Maine Council of Trout Unlimited’s mission is to conserve, protect
and restore Maine’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
Our mission is to conserve, protect and restore Maine’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. We do this with five Maine chapters and about 1500 member-volunteers, through on-the-ground restoration projects, advocacy for the waters we love, and education. Maine is home to the nation’s last Atlantic salmon, the last native landlocked salmon and to more than 97% of the nation’s native and wild brook trout ponds.
From the removal of dams on the Kennebec and Penobscot River’s to surveys of remote beaver ponds for native brook trout that deserve protection, Maine TU volunteers are working for our waters and fish. To keep our programs flourishing and our waters healthy we need your support.
Please take a few minutes and support one or more of our ongoing programs. Click here to download a donation form and specify what you'd like your dollars to support.
Brook Trout Interactive Map
The Maine Brook Trout Waters Interactive Map was developed to educate, enlighten and assist conservationists and anglers in locating and mapping Maine's Brook Trout and their watersheds.
This Google Earth application allows users to readily locate Wild and Native Brook Trout Waters and the most current open water fishing regulations. We plan to periodically add additional layers as they become available. We think you will enjoy this user-friendly resource and hope that it helps with your next fishing trip to or within the State of Maine. Click here to go to the Maine Brook Trout Waters Interactive Map.
Brook Trout Pond Survey
The success of this project is entirely dependent on the data collected by volunteer anglers. Anglers can choose one or more ponds in our survey area to find and fish. The project’s focus on remote ponds offers angler a chance to explore new places while advancing trout conservation efforts. This project seeks to concentrate survey efforts on those ponds that are most likely to contain wild populations of brook trout. None of these ponds have ever been surveyed by Maine fisheries biologists, and there are no records of past stocking, so any brook trout found in them are native, wild fish.
We are seeking both new and returning volunteers to survey one or more of the 372 ponds on the list. Volunteers should be enthusiastic about fishing for brook trout, be comfortable in remote settings, and have a sense of adventure. Surveys can be completed any time before September 30th, 2012.
There are two ways to view and select ponds: 1) If you already have Google Earth installed on your computer, open the “Map of Ponds in Google Earth.” If not, open “Directions for Viewing Ponds in Google Earth” OR 2) Get out your Gazetteer and open the “2012 List of Ponds.” Map numbers and coordinates are listed next to pond names. Once you have selected a pond, please notify us of your selection so we can track progress throughout the season.
For more information or to sign up to volunteer, please contact Amanda Moeser at Maine Audubon at 207-781-6180 x207, or amoeser@maineaudubon.org.