[SEMCO] Tonight- Native Brook Trout program at Waquoit Bay Reserve, Tuesday, August 14, 7 pm

[Muller, Joan (DCR)]

Program tonight!

Native Trout Talk at the Waquoit Bay Reserve
Tuesday, August 14, at 7 pm in the Visitor Center, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve


Next week, Waquoit Bay Reserve brings back one of its most popular "Research at the Reserve" talks, "Trout Tag Tales".  Steve Hurley, Southeast District Fisheries Manager at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife will share his knowledge of the natural history of the native brook trout and focus on current studies tagging native Eastern Brook Trout in the Quashnet and Child's Rivers.

The Eastern Brook Trout, one of the species that travels between fresh and salt water, is renowned with sport fishermen. The Quashnet and Child's Rivers were celebrated trout streams until they were degraded during the 1800 and 1900s due to mill dams, cranberry farming, fish stocking, and other human actions. The Quashnet River was restored in the late 1900s and work has begun to restore the Child's River. Researchers at Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife and Waquoit Bay NERR are conducting several different types of research including DNA research, monitoring temperature changes in the river and tagging the native brook trout to track efforts to restore the Child's River.

The pit tagging can be compared to pet owners injecting their pets with a scannable identification tag to help recover them. The tags that have been used with the trout for the last several years work on the same principle. Researchers can follow the path of each tagged fish as it travels through rivers, ponds, and the bay. Some of the results may surprise people.

This program is the summer edition of Research at the Reserve, where scientists discuss their research at the Waquoit Bay Reserve. In addition to explaining the research they're doing, researchers  include personal anecdotes on how they did the research and how they feel their research will make a difference to those sitting in the audience. This series was created to expose community members who are curious, but may or may not have a scientific background,  to cutting edge science in a relaxed and informal way.

Doors open at 6:45 with a chance to view the exhibits in the visitor center. For more information, call 508-457-0495 x 107 or 108. Waquoit Bay Reserve Visitor Center is located at 149 Waquoit Highway, Waquoit, Massachusetts.

The next program is "Studying the Past to Understand the Future: A Submerged Ancient Forest and Sea Level Rise" which will be presented by UMass Boston doctoral candidate Chris Maio on Tuesday, August 21 at 7 pm.

For more information, go to www.waquoitbayreserve.org<http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org>


Joan Muller
Education Coordinator
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
149 Waquoit Hwy.
Box 3092
Waquoit, MA 02536
508-457-0495 x107
www.waquoitbayreserve.org

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