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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We were pleasantly surprised to see a good volume of clear water, a clean sand and gravel bottom, and a notable lack of trash or other debris...
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In total, these two eels had to travel more than 100 miles to get to where they were captured…
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The project was more about proof-of-concept than actual impact as you cannot remove what took years to accumulate in just a few hours of manual work…
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While walking Cheesecake Brook, NFC observed far more fish than we believed were present in the stream…
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In order to understand what other species of fish could be in Cold Spring Brook within Cold Spring Park, NFC toured the next downstream segement of stream…
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Friends of Trout Brook will be doing their first public event, Dover Days Fair, on Saturday, September 13, from 10am to 3pm…
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The presence of eel, carp, and sucker upstream of the cement slab indicates that fish are utilizing the stream…
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The data collected from temperature logging phase of the project will be used to assess what the stream is capable of supporting…
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Of special interest to NFC was the fact that nearly all of the live stakes planted a month earlier were showing one or more new green offshoots…
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As part of an ongoing project on Cold Spring Brook in Newton, Massachsuetts, NFC recently deployed a series of temperature loggers…
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The Massachusetts chapter of NFC recently assisted MassWildlife in e-fishing a sea-run brook trout stream on Cape Cod…
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While heavily stocked with nonnative rainbow trout, the Swift River is inarguably Massachusetts’ finest wild native brook trout stream…
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As a result of a 2-year project by NFC on Trout Brook in Dover, Massachusetts, concerned local anglers and conservationists have formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to address some of the problems identified…
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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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