MONTPELIER, Vt. -
The federal government is ending its 45-year effort to restore Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has raised salmon at its hatcheries in Bethel and Chittenden and released them into the river each spring. But that effort will be suspended.
Officials at a Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission meeting in Massachusetts Tuesday said the move away from salmon hatchery rearing comes "due to a lack of recovery and the low numbers returning to the river."
