In this day and age of social media, information overload can become an issue. I take a cue from speed reading and quickly scan until my eye catches something that my brain has deemed should be of interest.
So, it was during the month of August when a post from Maine Inland Fisheries caused my brain to stop the scanning and begin the reading.
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