Fisheries management, Habitat restoration, Species status assessment
We have raised landlocked Atlantic salmon for the Lake Champlain Restoration Program since 1980. The species was extirpated from Lake Champlain around the turn of the century due to the construction of dams which cut off fish from their spawning grounds; siltation and pollution from agriculture and urban growth also played a role in degrading available spawning habitat which further limited the salmon's ability to reproduce. Now, there is a thriving fishery in the lake because of our stocking and habitat restoration efforts.
