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Atlantic Salmon Smolt Research on the Miramichi River 2025
July 25, 2025 - Adult Atlantic salmon returns to the Miramichi River in 2019 were the lowest on record, according to DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Science Branch), with very little change in recent years....

Atlantic Salmon Smolt Research on the Miramichi River 2024
February 4, 2025 - Description: Adult Atlantic salmon returns to the Miramichi River in 2019 were the lowest on record, according to DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Science Branch), with very little change in 2022...

Atlantic Salmon Conservation Strategy – Tracadie River Watershed
February 4, 2025 - Description: In 2024 MREAC will prepare an Atlantic Salmon Conservation Strategy on the Tracadie River and its tributaries in northeastern New Brunswick. Local networking and stakeholder interviews will provide an...

Immediately improving estuary survival of Atlantic salmon smolts by active management in the Miramichi River
February 3, 2025 - Description: Through previous research work, combined effort from UNB-INTEL and ASF has unequivocally determined that the largest factor currently negatively affecting survival of ocean-bound salmon smolts in Miramichi River is...

Miramichi Cold-Water Enhancement Program 2021
September 13, 2021 - Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi are assessed as Special Concern by COSEWIC and are struggling to meet conservation minimums. Miramichi Atlantic salmon face a variety of marine and freshwater threats,...

Atlantic Salmon Smolt Research Miramichi 2021
September 13, 2021 - Adult Atlantic Salmon returns to the Miramichi River in 2019 were the lowest on record, according to DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Science Branch). Understanding if smolt targets are being met...

Miramichi Smallmouth Bass Eradication
September 13, 2021 - The 2021 project will be the operational component of the larger eradication plan which began with the formation of a Working Group in 2016 and has included a complex set...

Miramichi cold-water enhancement program
July 7, 2020 - This project will work to create a climate-change resilient river system. This will be accomplished by enhancing cold-water habitats to serve as thermal refugia for adult and juvenile Atlantic salmon...

Enhancing critically important wild Atlantic salmon habitat in the Miramichi River watershed.
May 15, 2017 - Salmon Brook – this project will remove the sediment deposition and increase flow conveyance at the mouth by narrowing the brook and redefining its channel thereby improving the concentration of...