Brook Trout Return To Falmouth After River Restoration
“An electroshock fish census on May 18 by Massachusetts state fish biologist Steve Hurley revealed that Upper Childs River, the site of a restoration project led by the Falmouth Rod & Gun Club, saw a major spike in the population of wild brook trout.”
Sea-run brook trout are a truly unique life history strategy. The idea that a diminutive brook trout would leave the relative safety of a freshwater stream to seek thermal refuge, escape low water, or in search of forage in potentially hostile saltwater or brackish water shows just how strong the will to survive can be.
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Special thanks to Falmouth Rod & Gun Club for spearheading the project, MassWildlife for making it happen, and Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition for putting these fish on the map, reminding us all of how important they are, and informing the masses why we need to do everything we can to preserve them.
A juvenile wild native brook trout from a coastal stream in Maine. BOB MALLARD