By Pamela J. Nickerson 

If Hatchery Manager Mitchell Monini is successful then, he chuckles, he will “be out of a job.” Monini is “rearing fish in as natural a habitat as possible to mimic early life stages” along the river in East Machias at the former Bangor Hydro building.  Water from the East Machias River is pumped into an ultraviolet sterilization filter, installed last year following a devastating virus at the Downeast Salmon Federation’s hatchery; all fish at the hatchery had to be destroyed at the time.