Suburban Streams: The Next Frontier in Native Fish Conservation...
Members from Newton Conservators and MA NFC seining a suburban stream for fish.
“While suburban and urban waterways increasingly receive attention for habitat restoration, fish populations often remain overlooked...”
As part of a conservation guest column in MidCurrent sponsored by Epic Fly Rods, NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard writes about heavily altered suburban streams and what NFC has been doing to try to help them out. Our first 2 projects were on Cold Spring Brook and Cheesecake Brook in Massachusetts.
“These suburban waterways emerged briefly into daylight only to vanish beneath houses, driveways, businesses, schools, parking lots, roads, sidewalks, and fields...”
A daylighted section of suburban stream in Massachusetts that has been straightened, dredged, walled in, robbed of streamside vegetation, and left all but devoid of fish…
Special thanks to our friends at MidCurrent and Epic for makinging these native fish conservation pieces possible, and for their ongoing support of Native Fish Coalition.
