Connecting rivers for healthy ocean fisheries

Across Maine, communities and land owners are reconnecting rivers and streams by improving road crossings, fixing broken culverts, and removing dams and other barriers. There are many reasons for doing this work, including preventing costly repairs associated with flooding and washouts, enhancing wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmitt, Catherine
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2016
Subjects:
habitat restoration
groundfish
Atlantic cod
alewives
blueback herring
river herring
marine food webs
river restoration
dam removal
Aquaculture and Fisheries
Biodiversity
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Policy
Marine Biology
Science and Technology Policy
atlantic cod
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/seagrant_pub/117
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=seagrant_pub
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Summary:Across Maine, communities and land owners are reconnecting rivers and streams by improving road crossings, fixing broken culverts, and removing dams and other barriers. There are many reasons for doing this work, including preventing costly repairs associated with flooding and washouts, enhancing water quality, increasing wildlife habitat, and restoring fish populations. Connecting Rivers explores some of the ways that streams connect inland lakes and forests and the sea. This first fact sheet in the series focuses on connections between populations of migratory river fish (alewives and blueback herring) and groundfish (e.g., cod).

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