Anne Arundel County, Maryland Funded in FY2022 through the National Fish Habitat Partnership. Once the Chesapeake Bay’s most valuable fishery, the native oyster population has been severely depleted by overfishing, sedimentation, and pollution. Overfished reefs are subject to sedimentation because of the reduced verti… Read More
Warren County, New Jersey. This project was funded in FY2022 through the National Fish Habitat Partnership. The Nature Conservancy is working with partners to remove the Paulina Dam on the Paulins Kill. The dam is an obstruction to American shad, American eel, and sea lamprey passage, which are found below the dam. Re… Read More
Danforth, Maine This project was funded in FY2022 through the National Fish Habitat Partnership. The project will restore access to 8,960 acres and 137 miles of stream habitat for alewives and other diadromous fish species through the installation of a pool and weir fishway at the Baskahegan Dam. The dam is a compl… Read More
Stratford, Connecticut This project was funded in FY2021 through the National Fish Habitat Action Plan This project, led by Audubon Connecticut, will restore 39 acres of coastal salt marsh and other intertidal habitats at Great Meadows Marsh, one of Connecticut’s largest salt marshes. Impacted by land use changes an… Read More
Braintree, Massachusetts This project was funded in FY2021 through the National Fish Habitat Action Plan For many years, the former mill industry along the Monatiquot River impacted historic herring runs and disconnected species from their spawning grounds. Now, the Armstrong Dam is the primary barrier to fish passage… Read More
Wilmington, North Carolina This project was funded in FY2021 through the National Fish Habitat Action Plan Battleship North Carolina, a National Historic Landmark berthed on the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, NC, is adjacent to 65 acres of state-owned marsh, uplands, and parkland. With a 60-year coastal riverine his… Read More
Ft. Pierce, Florida This project was funded in FY2020 by the FishAmerica Foundation. Moore's Creek discharges into the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) and often decreases the quality of the water within this portion of the IRL. The IRL is one of North America's largest and most diverse estuaries, and in recent years has suf… Read More
Cambridge, Maryland This project was funded in FY2021 through the NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation and the NOAA Recreational Fishing Initiative. The Bill Burton Fishing Pier is an important access point to the Choptank River, a NOAA Habitat Focus Area. In 2014 – 2015, up to 350 mini bay-sized reef balls were depl… Read More
Holly Ridge, North Carolina This project was funded in FY2019 through the NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation and the NOAA Recreational Fishing Initiative. The North Carolina Coastal Federation has restored 0.05 acres of fringing oyster reef and 0.07 acres of tidal salt marsh habitat to protect an additional 0.2 acres… Read More
Water quality is essential for aquatic organisms to eat, grow, and reproduce. For anadromous species like river herring, which migrate from saltwater to freshwater to give birth, streams and rivers must be clean and free-flowing. When newly hatched young emerge from their eggs, they rely on high quality habitat including am… Read More