NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard talks Suburban and Urban Streams with MidCurrent...
“Whether NFC’s work on urban streams will result in opportunities for kids growing up in the suburbs and cities to fish is unknown. But they will at least be able to see fish and know that they are there. And any improvements regarding fish passage, a notable problem in suburban and urban streams, would increase spawning habitat for river dwelling fish such as white suckers as well as anadromous species such as river herring, both of which provide important forage for gamefish...”
As part of a conservation guest column sponsored by Epic Fly Rods, Native Fish Coalition Executive Director Bob Mallard talked about the work NFC has been doing on suburban and urban streams in Massachusetts. Bob wrote about this in MidCurrent roughly a year ago when their work was in its early stages. What NFC has learned since then is fascinating…
“Currently, NFC’s work on suburban and urban waters is about fish, not fishing. It’s about identifying what is where and doing what we can to make life a bit easier for these amazingly resilient fish which have endured everything man has thrown at them... ”
special thanks to midcurrent and epic fly rods for their support in regard to getting the native fish word out to the fly fishing masses. and to our ma nfc board members for their boots on the ground support.
