May 4, 2012 The Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition (SRBTC) is pleased to announce a partnership with Trout Unlimited (TU) National Office to secure funding for the restoration of Marshall Brook on Mount Desert Island, Maine. This project is also supported by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) and Acadia National Park (ANP). Marshall Brook is a small coastal watershed that drains approximately 3,200 acres, most which lies within ANP.

On November 6, 2010, Mass Division of Ecological Restoration's Beth Lambert presented to concerned citizens of West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard. Beth's presentation discusses what MA DER does and how it helps dam owners and townspeople consider river restoration options. Beth was invited to come speak in West Tisbury, as the town is currently involved in a discussion about what, if anything, needs to be done at the Mill Pond in the center of town.

Doug Swesty, former president of the Art Flick Chapter of TU has been named Long Island Watershed Director to help SRBTC work on issues pertaining to restoring sea-run brook trout on Long Island, New York. Long Island, once well known for sea-run brook trout, contains over a dozen rivers, all with varying needs of attention. While these streams still support wild populations of reproducing brook trout, most are isolated from the sea by dams, thermal barriers and other impediments.

Thanks to Prudy Burt, the SRBTC was invited to speak at the West Tisbury Library about the possibility of restoring a sea-run brook trout stream on Martha's Vineyard. The town of West Tisbury is currently engaged in a discussion about whether to dredge the Mill Pond in the center of town, or to remove the dam and allow the Mill Brook to flow unimpeded down to Tisbury Great Pond. So, on January 28, 2012, SRBTC's Mike Hopper and Geof Day spent most of the day looking over various native brook trou...

This week the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition donated $ 2,800 in the form of a grant to Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to fund the purchase of telemetry tags to be used in an ongoing study to determine whether brook trout in Red Brook and other coastal streams regain their anadromous lifestyle after the removal of barriers. This ongoing study is a fundamental step toward the restoration and conservation of sea run brook trout in New England, an...

I want to introduce to to a great new website that goes into more detail about the restoration project at Red Brook.  Redbrook.org was designed by volunteer Christophe Perez and contains writings by SRBTC founder Warren Winders in the days before and during the foundation of SRBTC. Warren is the former Red Brook Director for the Southeastern Mass Chapter of Trout Unlimited, a position he created in 1993 and held until just recently.  During that time he led numerous strategic meetings ...

Bringing back New England's salter brook trout By Tom Sadler.  Printed originally in Orvis News, Sept 30, 2011. Last month, at the American Fisheries Society meeting in Seattle, I sat down with Dr. Andy Danylchuk, assistant professor of fish conservation in the department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.