Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition
The Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of habitat for the Sea Run Brook Trout.
SRBTC Founders will be actively participating in Red Brook Family Day, Sept 19, 2010 - if you wish to come, drop by the website for >>details and make sure you say hi to Warren Winders, Steve Angers, Mike Hopper or Geof Day.
Our logo above is an image of a Red Brook Sea Run Brook Trout, painted for SRBTC by artist James Prosek in 2010.
We have 100 numbered and signed prints of trout to be sold to directly benefit our organization. >> Click here to order
At one time there were approximately seventy streams in Massachusetts which once held teeming populations of wild sea run brook trout.
Today, SRBTC knows of nine confirmed waters holding native, wild, sea run brookies, notably two on Cape Cod; Red Brook and the Quashnet River.
Both benefit from catch-and-release status and both are undergoing multi-decade restoration efforts to bring this magnificent wild fish back.
Thanks to the efforts of a handful of very dedicated volunteers, wild sea run brook trout populations are growing again, due to collaborative efforts between Mass Dept of Fish and Wildlife, local and regional chapters of Trout Unlimited, The Trustees of the Reservations, American Rivers, US Fish and Wildlife, University of Massachusetts, USGS Conte Lab, Mass Division of Ecological Restoration, private foundations and individual contributions of time, talent and funds.
You can help us further our goals.
SRBTC is in the process raising money and resources to begin formally identifying all streams along the Atlantic seaboard that once held populations of sea run brook trout and assessing and prioritizing each formally for the possibility for restoration and rehabilitation.
To support SRBTC, you can order your very own James Prosek signed and numbered print of the Red Brook Trout (limited edition 100 copies).
Prints are available in either print or framed and matted format.
Contact Mike Hopper (tosinc@comcast.net) for more information or >click here to order
Founders:
Michael Hopper, President, Cambridge, MA - Contact at 617-413-0989
Warren Winders, Director, Randolph, MA
Steve Angers, Treasurer, Mansfield MA
Geoffrey Day, Clerk, Cambridge MA
SRBTC is incorporated in the State of Massachusetts and is in the process of filing our 501-C-3 application to become a private operating foundation.
Stay tuned for more.
Geoffrey Day
gday@searunbrooktrout.org