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New smelt regulations: quiet hearing, strong feelings

Maine’s smelt fishery is far from the largest in volume and very, very far from the top in value, but the silvery little fish stir strong feelings within a cluster of Mainers who ascribe an almost mythic quality to the toothy delicacy that run up many of the state’s coastal brooks from the sea each spring to spawn. Read the rest here 13:11