Connecting rivers for healthy ocean fisheries

• 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

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).