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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To better understand the impact of the lack of fish-passage, NFC installed two temperature loggers at locations upstream and downstream of the culvert…
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We felt that creating fish passage that would allow stocked and nonnative fish access to water they did not have access to today with no plan to suspend stocking just didn’t make sense. ..
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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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New Hampshire NFC Vice Chair Aliess John and board member Jeff Moore recently joined volunteers from Pemigiwassett TU and NH Fish & Game…
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This effort has proven worthwhile as we have picked up a few mistakes that would be addressed the following year, and as the list of stocked waters gets smaller, other problems become more visible…
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Funds raised at the event will be used to help mitigate damage to the riparian area of a small stream as a result of logging…
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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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The New Hampshire chapter of NFC is tabling at the New Hampshire Outdoor Expo…
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New Hampshire House Bill 1417-FN looked to codify, or put into law, the states faltering Wild Trout Management program…
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NFC just tabled at the 2024 The Fly Fishing Show in Marlborough, Massachusetts…
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Effective January 1, 2024, New Hampshire Fish and Game has removed the biologically flawed multi-species definition of "Brook Trout" from the rule book…
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MA NFC board member Jeff Moore joined New Hampshire Fish & Game, along with volunteers…
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Unfortunately, the critically important Wild Trout Management program, the only formal wild native trout protection program in the state, remains stalled out at just 16 waters and gaping geographic holes…
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After a few emails that included a request from a representative for the group for some pictures of native brook trout, a contact person from Maine Audubon removed the nonnative brown trout picture and replaced it with a few native brook trout pictures…
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After a long battle and a couple of setbacks, it looks as though Mill Pond Dam on the Oyster River in Durham, New Hampshire, is finally going to be removed…
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In most cases NFC supports the removal of dams and other structures that restrict fish passage. However, there are times when the negative impacts outweigh the benefits, and if this project goes forward as planned, we believe this is one of those times…
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This is a critical first step in what we hope will be an overhaul of how NH views and manages its wild native brook trout…
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Under state law, Fis 401.03, the definition of “Brook Trout” is “…brook, rainbow, brown and golden trout, Loch Leven trout and all their hybrids.”…
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New Hampshire NFC has been analyzing the data and running some numbers to try to get a feeling for the overall impact of the proposed stocking suspensions from NH Fish and Game…
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