News from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
March 31, 2005
Phone: (603) 271-3211
Email: info@wildlife.state.nh.us
For information and online licenses, visit 
http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us

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CONTACT:
Sue Martin: (603) 271-3422
Jane Vachon: (603) 271-5619
March 31, 2005

    LIMITED-EDITION SALMON PRINT AND STAMP SETS FROM FISH AND GAME

CONCORD, N.H. -- A special limited-edition salmon print and collectible 
set of Atlantic salmon stamps are now available for sale through N.H. 
Fish and Game, with proceeds to benefit the Merrimack River Anadromous 
Fish Restoration Program. New Hampshire's Atlantic salmon stamps and 
prints are sought nationwide by anglers and wildlife art collectors.

The limited-edition print by renowned wildlife artist Arthur Taylor is 
a tribute to world-class salmon angler Joan Salvato Wulff of Surry, 
N.H., who with her late husband Lee founded the Wulff School of Fly 
Fishing in 1979. The lively full-color print, "Joan's Release," portrays Joan 
Wulff on the Pemigewasset River in spring, releasing an Atlantic 
salmon. It is printed on archive-quality paper in an edition of 300; each 
print is signed by the artist. The cost is $85 per print plus $5 total for 
shipping and handling.

The 5-year series of collector-issue salmon stamps from 2000-2004 
features classic salmon fly patterns Jock Scott, Green Highlander, Silver 
Doctor, Orange Parson and Durham Ranger, with brilliantly colored 
original artwork by wildlife artist Victor Young. These are the final five 
salmon stamps that New Hampshire will issue; starting this year, stamp and 
possession tags are no longer required for brood-stock salmon anglers. 
(The $11 salmon "permit" is now a simple checkbox on the license 
application.) Only 50 sets of the number-matched stamps were saved for this 
special sale. The cost is $50 per set of five stamps; no shipping and 
handling charge applies.

Salmon permit, stamp and print revenues generated by anglers and 
collectors are set aside in a special dedicated account strictly for the 
Merrimack River Anadromous Fishery Restoration Program. This program 
includes the Merrimack River broodstock Atlantic salmon fishery, the only 
east-coast fishery of its kind. N.H. Fish and Game will release a total of 
1,500 tagged broodstock salmon in 2005 -- about 1,100 this spring and 
400 in the fall. 

Order forms for the salmon print and salmon stamps, plus color pictures 
of the items, are available on Fish and Game's website at 
http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us; or call (603) 271-3421 for 
information. 

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