[SEMCO] Re-sending Herring Count Workshop Notice for March 12

[Jo Ann Muramoto]

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Herring Count Volunteer Training Workshop

Date: March 12, 2007
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Route 6A
Brewster, MA 02631


RSVP: Visit the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) website at www.apcc.org to register.  

 

Workshop 

Volunteer Counts of River Herring: Building Stewardship and Promoting Restoration Through Citizen Science 

Location:  Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, 869 Route 6A, Brewster 

When:  Monday, March 12, at 9:30 AM 

Sponsors:  Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Massachusetts Bays Program - Cape Cod Region, Town of Brewster, and Cape Cod Museum of Natural History 

The goal of this workshop is to train volunteers and interested citizens on how to obtain good counts of river herring.  Volunteers working together can get population estimates of migrating river herring for a specific river. This information is useful for determining the health and stability of a local fishery and helps fisheries managers protect and restore herring runs. Accurate herring counts are needed in order to help fisheries managers understand the reasons for the drastic decline in herring in recent years, and help restore and protect the herring fishery in herring runs across Cape Cod.  

APCC is especially seeking volunteers to count herring along the Stony Brook herring run in Brewster.  APCC is helping the Brewster Conservation Commission and Alewives Committee explore the feasibility of restoring salt marsh along Stony Brook, which will help protect herring and improve the habitat quality of the fish run.  Residents from other towns interested in setting up herring count programs along their runs are also welcome.

The workshop trainer will be Tim Purinton, a River Restoration Planner for the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game Riverways Program.  He will provide training in monitoring migrating river herring using a simple, standardized method.  Purrington has trained volunteers and watershed association staff up and down the coast. 

Other speakers will be Phil Brady, Anadromous Fish Specialist of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, who will speak about the status of herring populations state-wide.  Dr. Martha Mather and Dr. John Finn, both from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will speak about their research on herring movements and videomonitoring methods for counting fish. 

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Workshop Agenda 

9:30 AM     Welcome and Introduction, Dr. Jo Ann Muramoto, APCC Senior Scientist and Mass Bays Program Regional Coordinator on Cape Cod, and Dana Condit, Chair of the Brewster Alewives Committee 

9:40 AM     The Status of River Herring in Massachusetts, Phillips Brady, Anadromous Fish Specialist, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries 

10:10 AM   Herring Migrations in Time and Space, Dr. Martha Mather, University of Massachusetts- Amherst 

10:40 AM   An Eye on the Run - Using Videocameras to Monitor Herring, Dr. Jack Finn, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 

11:10 AM   Volunteer Counts of River Herring: Building Stewardship and Promoting Restoration Through Citizen Science, Tim Purinton, Massachusetts Riverways Program 

12:00 PM   Visit nearby herring run along Stony Brook 

Advance registration is requested.  To RSVP, visit the APCC website at www.apcc.org   .

For more information, contact APCC toll-free at 1-877-955-4142 or info at apcc.org. 

This workshop is supported by the Massachusetts Bays Program and by grants from the Mary-Louise Eddy and Ruth N. Eddy Foundation and the Gulf of Maine Council on the Environment / NOAA Habitat Restoration Partnership Program. 
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