As a bottom-feeder, sturgeon are sometimes accidentally caught by anglers in rivers and estuaries. This led NFC to reach out to NOAA Fisheries and several New England state marine resources agencies…
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If not, it is a sign that something is wrong at the watershed level, as while it is easy to depress a population of fish, their complete loss is usually the sign of compound problems, not a single issue or event.…
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Raised in a suburb just outside of Boston, NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard was fascinated by the cities network of subterranean streams...
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This challenges the theory that brown trout may be better suited to our warming waters than brook trout…
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While there were redfin pickerel, banded sunfish, and swamp darter, unfortunately, no brook trout were encountered…
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It wouldn’t take much of a change in flow to turn this dam from a minor inconvenience to a potential fish passage blocking structure…
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Based on water temperature data collected in 2023, the only places in the Trout Brook watershed that remained cool enough to support wild brook trout were the headwaters and two small spring tributaries…
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In what is NFC’s largest volunteer effort to date, informational signs were just posted on the 350th State Heritage Fish Water in Maine…
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Members of the Massachusetts chapter of NFC recently tabled at the first ever Boston Outdoor Expo…
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As part of a NFC wide project, we just ordered informational signs pertaining to federally listed sturgeon for New Jersey and Pennsylvania…
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The Massachusetts chapter of NFC with support from Charles River Watershed Association just wrapped up a multi-location season-long temperature monitoring effort on Trout Brook in Dover…
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NFC just tabled at the 2024 The Fly Fishing Show in Marlborough, Massachusetts…
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NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard and National Chair Emily Bastian were invited to speak to The Fly Casters of Boston…
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After analyzing the data, NFC was able to identify the source of an increase in stream temperature of more than 15 degrees over a distance of just 1/4 of a mile…
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As part of MA NFCs ongoing project at Trout Brook, MA NFC board members Max Heidelberger, Brian Hutchison and Jeff Moore deployed the last 3 temp loggers in middle and lower Trout Brook, bringing the total to 12…
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As part of MA NFCs ongoing project at Trout Brook, MA NFC board member Jeff Moore accompanied by his wife Jane, grandson Ziggy and the family dogs, deployed 4 more temp loggers in the critically important headwaters of Trout Brook.…
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MA NFC board members Jeff Moore and Brian Hutchison deployed the first two temp loggers on Trout Brook in Dover, Massachusetts…
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While disappointing, the lack of brook trout is not surprising as the population is seriously depressed at best and possibly extirpated…
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After posting informational signs noting the presence and status of endangered sturgeon on the Connecticut River, MA NFC is now starting on the Merrimack River…
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Massachusetts NFC has posted informational signs pertaining to the presence of wild brook trout redds on the Swift River above Route 9…
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