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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Below are the final reports associated with NFC’s onging Holistic Stream Assessment/Restoration projects…
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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 order to understand what other species of fish could be in Cold Spring Brook within Newton Cemetery and Arboretum and Cold Spring Park, NFC took a look at the headwaters of Laundry Brook where Cold Spring Brook terminates…
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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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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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As soon as the signs are posted we will start collecting data…
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Thanks to the generosity of the Newton Conservators, MA NFC will be expanding its eDNA metabarcoding sampling in Newton’s suburban and urban streams…
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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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Friends of Cold Spring Park, one of our partners on our Cold Spring Brook in Newton, Massachusetts, project recently added a first ever section on fish to the wildlife page on their website…
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After a very successful webinar sponsored by Newton Conservators that featured NFC’s work on suburban and urban streams in Newton, Massachusetts, the story was picked up by The Heights…
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While NFC has looked at a lot of different things in regard to overall stream health, the focus of the presentation was on fish…
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The goal was to understand what species of fish could and could not live in the stream…
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While most of what NFC does with regard to informational signage spotlight species and life history strategy presence, it is equally as important to spotlight the loss of such…
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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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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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