Red Brook Restoration Project Begins in Wareham, MA
Members of the Massachusetts Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife and volunteers conduct electro-fishing and tagging operations on Red Brook in spring 2011. Photo/BoatingLocal
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr. and state environmental officials joined government, industry and scientific leaders to celebrate the kickoff of the Red Brook restoration project at A.D. Makepeace Headquarters in Wareham, Massachusetts.
SAT map Red Brook
The project will demonstrate how conservation sites can be prepared for the impending impacts of climate change and how environmental restoration and stewardship can aid in these efforts.
Red Brook is home to one of the last self-sustaining runs of searun brook trout on the coast, Photo/BoatingLocal.
Officials highlighted the multiple dam removals that have already been completed on Red Brook, home to one of the lat remaining runs of searun brook trout (aka, “salters”). Also showcased were the ongoing fisheries restoration efforts, and land conservation, including the state’s recent purchase of Century Bog and its planned restoration.
Here is a short video of searun trout tagging operations at Red Brook from last spring:
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Tom Richardson is the co-director and host of BoatingLocal. Before that he served as the editor of Northeast Boating from 2005 to 2009, and as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine from 1995 to 2004. He lives, boats and fishes in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.
