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09-07-2007, 06:35 PM
Genetically intact Sea Run Brookies introductions around the Gulf of Maine.
Last Fall I started working with Essex Agricultural and Technical High School, (I’m an alumni advisor for the College, or what’s left of it.) to shift their existing aquaculture program into a Sea Run Brookies program. The board of directors approved the program and purchased a few chillers to maintain the appropriate water temperatures. I believe they are installed, and they are awaiting a trial run to test the efficiency.
This project has many layers. It started when we noticed that sea run brookies share very similar early life phases as Atlantic Salmon. As adults they head out to the estuary and embayment and return each year, while AS head north to Greenland and return after 2 years and sporadically after that. So the idea is if we can use brookies or fish that stay local to narrow down what the problems are in the AS restoration programs. If the brookie runs are successful the problem is in the oceanic lifestages of the AS. If we can’t find the brookies locally the problem is in our local waters.
The fish will be transplanted locally in the North Shore Ma by the high school kids, and we will coordinate and be responsible for the restorations in the rest of the Gulf of Maine.
Last Fall I started working with Essex Agricultural and Technical High School, (I’m an alumni advisor for the College, or what’s left of it.) to shift their existing aquaculture program into a Sea Run Brookies program. The board of directors approved the program and purchased a few chillers to maintain the appropriate water temperatures. I believe they are installed, and they are awaiting a trial run to test the efficiency.
This project has many layers. It started when we noticed that sea run brookies share very similar early life phases as Atlantic Salmon. As adults they head out to the estuary and embayment and return each year, while AS head north to Greenland and return after 2 years and sporadically after that. So the idea is if we can use brookies or fish that stay local to narrow down what the problems are in the AS restoration programs. If the brookie runs are successful the problem is in the oceanic lifestages of the AS. If we can’t find the brookies locally the problem is in our local waters.
The fish will be transplanted locally in the North Shore Ma by the high school kids, and we will coordinate and be responsible for the restorations in the rest of the Gulf of Maine.