Rockymarsh Run Watershed Restoration
The Freshwater Institute is initiating restoration and protection efforts in Rockymarsh Run with the goal of restoring a native brook trout fishery in the stream and generating other local benefits for the area, while also contributing to regional Chesapeake Bay water quality restoration goals.
Click here to go to the Rockymarsh Run website and learn more about the watershed, why it is important to protect, and who we're working with to restore it.
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The Freshwater Institute recently taught its annual Water Reuse for Intensive Fish Culture Short Course in Bar Harbor, Maine. Students from across the United States, Canada and Chile attended lectures on such topics as recirculation system design, water quality, biofiltration, gas conditioning, and biosecurity. They toured local facilities including the USDA’s new Northeast Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center in Franklin, Maine.
Click here for more details on the next short course to be held in 2010.
Drs. Christopher Good and Steven Summerfelt presented research findings from USDA ARS funded projects in Trondhiem, Norway.
Read Velo Mitrovich's article about Dr. Summerfelt's talk at Trondheim, "One aquaculture scientist is putting forward a radical concept: research that pays off." in Fish Farming International, September 2009.
The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute has been awarded Runner-Up in the Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Contest 2009 in the Environmental Impact Print/Photo category. Learn More >>