Massachusetts NFC worked with Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation and Pioneer Valley Trout Unlimited to develop an informational sign pertaining the presence of wild brook trout redds in the upper Swift River tailwater below Quabbin Reservoir…
Read MoreAs part of a multi-state project, NFC worked with NOAA Fisheries and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries to develop an informational sign pertaining to the presence of federally endangered shortnose sturgeon…
Read MoreFirst up is Massachusetts, where MA NFC is working in conjunction with NOAA Fisheries and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries to post signs in critical sturgeon habitat…
Read MoreOn August 5th, Massachusetts NFC board member Jeff Moore helped MA Fish and Wildlife e-fish a small stream less than 15 miles southeast of Boston…
Read MoreMA NFC Chair Bob Dalton and board members Spencer Belson, Kyle White, and David Morse, along with volunteers Brendan and Mike Murnane, Sean Ballou, and Jon Honea were back at work installing counting plates for the annual Shawsheen River herring count…
Read MoreAs a bottom-feeder, sturgeon are sometimes accidentally caught by anglers in rivers and estuaries…
Read MoreMassachusetts NFC Board member Alex Shukis accompanied MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Biologist Adam Kautza…
Read MoreThe Massachusetts chapter of NFC recently spent the day with staff from the Connecticut Valley District office of MassWildlife…
Read MoreThe Massachusetts chapter of NFC posted informational signs at the herring counting stations on the Shawsheen River in Andover…
Read MoreThe Massachusetts chapter of NFC returned to the Shawsheen River in Andover Spring 2021 to get ready to start counting returning river herring…
Read MoreWhile much of the land adjacent to Red Brook is protected, large-scale commercial development in its headwaters could threaten the stream and Buttermilk Bay…
Read MoreMassachusetts Chair Bob Dalton joined MA Fish and Wildlife to survey a small stream in Franklin County recently…
Read MoreAnadromous river herring (also referred to as alewife), shad, and lamprey (a unique and ancient form of jawless fish)…
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