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Assessment of Atlantic salmon recruitment prior to the restoration of river processes
February 5, 2025 - Description: Log drive activities linearized and leveled several areas of Escoumins River. If wood transportation accelerated, substrate generally became too coarse for Atlantic salmon spawning. Also, the shallow depth of...

Restoring of Porters Brook and post-removal monitoring
February 4, 2025 - Description: Porters Brook is an important cold-water, spring-fed brook that lies within the Nashwaak watershed. Deposition of sediment is occurring in the pool at the mouth of the brook when...

Assessing and Restoring Aquatic Connectivity in the Nashwaak Watershed
February 4, 2025 - Description: This project builds on our successes over the last seven years in assessing and improving fish passage in the Nashwaak watershed. Our strategy for improving aquatic connectivity employs a...

Broken Brooks – Culvert Remediation and Equiping Recreational Waterway Users to Restore Fish Passage in SE NB
February 4, 2025 - Description: The PWA will continue to collect culvert passability data in our watershed to expand inner Bay of Fundy (iBoF) Atlantic salmon recovery efforts. The PWA uses this data to...

Mapping Atlantic Salmon Populations
February 4, 2025 - Description: The Atlantic salmon in the Oromocto River (Welamukotuk) are listed as endangered by COSEWIC and we have a duty to protect them while educating others of their continued presence....

Agricultural Partnerships for Sustainable Watersheds
February 4, 2025 - Description: “Agricultural Partnerships for a Sustainable Watershed” is a multi-partner project that will blend important watershed themes such as biodiversity, invasive species, erosion control, riparian setbacks, and more to improve...

Redd-y, Set, Grow: Riparian Restoration for Redd Conservation
February 4, 2025 - Description: This project will rely on HRAA’s members, dedicated volunteers, and participants of HRAA’s Angling Committee to assist in juvenile electrofishing surveys, redd count surveys, and riparian restoration. Project activities...

Wild Atlantic Salmon Population Recovery and Conservation
February 4, 2025 - Description: The purpose of this project is to perform Atlantic Salmon population restoration within the watersheds (Kouchibouguacis and Kouchibouguac). The goal is to increase the adult spawning population to a...