Fish Habitat

Arkansas Game and Fish Agrees to Long Term Lease on Maumelle River KARK LITTLE ROCK, AR- (Press Release) Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioners have approved a long-term lease agreement with Central Arkansas Water on the Maumelle River Wildlife...

Sisters Nugget
Fish habitat restoration succeeding at Camp Polk
Sisters Nugget
The process of carving deeper, straighter channels resulted in a faster, sluice-like stream that wiped out much of the creek's excellent historic fish spawning habitat.

Group Tries to Restore Native Fish Population in Madison
NBC 29 News
A restoration project is underway in Madison County, to bring back the native brook trout population that a severe flood all but wiped out.

Non-Profit Group Creating Fish Habiat for the Cape Fear River
Public Radio East
The National Fish Habitat Partnership has listed the Cape Fear River as one of the “10 Waters to Watch,” for its locally driven conservation areas and ongoing efforts.

Sickened smallmouth in the Susquehanna River - The Sentinel
Carlisle Sentinel
“We may look at different endpoints than the DEP (Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection) looks at. We don't believe the ...

Lake Conroe conservation efforts receive state, national recognition Your Houston News “Large-scale reservoir habitat restoration efforts are larger and more costly than any one agency, state or federal, can undertake on its own,” said Jeff...

Conservancies, property owners celebrate return of migrant fish
The Westerly Sun
But as the lower habitats fill up, the fish will continue moving upstream. “It might not be ...

UC Davis Researchers propose tool to improve stream habitat in California's Scott River UC Davis A team of University of California, Davis, scientists is developing a groundwater management tool that could lead to better streamflow conditions for...

NM, Ariz. biologists recognized for rescuing trout
ABQ Journal
The National Fish Habitat Partnership recently presented the 2012 Extraordinary Action Award to the game and fish departments in Arizona and New Mexico, the U.S.

Bluff Country Reader
Small streams, big resource
Bluff Country Reader
Typical jobs include healing crumbling banks with back-sloping and seeding, providing fish habitat through overhead cover, added depth and rock for in-stream cover.

Restoration efforts put spotlight on once plentiful alewives
Bangor Daily News
Alewives and blue-backed herring bunch up at the Dennysville fish weir in June 2008.

Lands Council, STCU, students team up on watershed restoration The Spokesman Review (subscription) From the foreground, Amanda Parker, Aleu Aleu and Isaiah Mitchell poke cuttings of willow branches into the muddy banks of Hangman Creek in...

Delaware River restoration project seeks public input
GIMBY (blog)
Delaware Riverkeeper Maya van Rossum wants to see more riverfront restoration along the Delaware River Basin. But not in the sense of more buildings, piers or other infrastructure.

Great Lakes Echo
Wisconsin replicates Michigan's certified natural shoreline program
Great Lakes Echo
The same site two years after restoration. Image: Jane Herbert, Michigan ...

Conroe has also been listed as a 2013 Waters to Watch by the National Fish Habitat Partnership. The list recognizes water bodies that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to protect, restore or enhance their current ...

Huffington Post The Bottom Line: Embracing Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Huffington Post We now need to do more to ensure healthy oceans by protecting essential forage fish, small prey species that our valuable fish populations rely upon and...

THV 11
Fisheries habitat plan aims at ensuring great fishing for the long term
Walker Pilot Independent
More and more these days, he's boiling it down to three words: good fish habitat.

New Mexico And Arizona Biologists Recognized For Saving Trout
KRWG-TV/FM
The National Fish Habitat Partnership recently presented the 2012 Extraordinary Action Award to the game and fish departments in Arizona and New Mexico, the U.S.