Chapter Highlights Mass RI TU Council | Electroshocking, NOAA Environmental Hero Fran Smith and Ongoing Salter Restoration Efforts

Check out this 2007 video showing Mass DFWLE Electro-fishing to survey wild sea run brooktrout.

Narrated by State Biologist Steve Hurley, this video shows prime salter habitat and demonstrates safe electrofishing technique.
Volunteer labor provided by Trout Unlimited.

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Steve Hurley shows off a brookie salter showing fall breeding colors observed during a survey of the Quashnet River.

Photo provided by Steve Hurley, MADFW

Read Steve's Bringing Back the Brookie Article

Read about NOAA Environmental Hero Fran Smith or read a Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Newsletter featuring Fran's work on the Quashnet River profiled in their 2003 newsletter >>here.

Fran was directly responsible for leading the effort to help bring back the river that produced the salter pictured here.

Read more about continuing Salter Restoration efforts on the Research page

2007 - TU Council Votes to Fund Trout Radio Frequency Tagging Project >> More

(2004) New Catch and Release Status APPROVED on the Housatonic, Red Brook and
extended on the Quashnet River.

Read about Catch and Release and Fly Fishing Only
areas throughout Massachusetts

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