Presenter Information

Boze Hancock, TNC
Alison Bowden, TNC

Location

UMass Amherst

Start Date

29-6-2011 2:15 PM

End Date

29-6-2011 2:35 PM

Description

The National Partnership between TNC and NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program (CRP) is focused on habitat restoration as well as engaging and educating the community through hands-on restoration of habitats that support marine resources. Target habitats range from coral, mangrove and sponge community restoration in low latitudes to shellfish reefs and giant kelp habitat in temperate latitudes. Since 2001 the INC-NOAA CRP Partnership has funded over 110 restoration projects targeting a broad suite of habitats. The marine resources targeted by the partnership include migratory fish and the freshwater habitats that are essential for the completion of their life cycle. To 2010, 27 fish passage projects have been implemented totaling $4.2 million, with $1.7 million in federal support. Projects include dam removals such as those on the Mill River in Taunton, MA; investigating the impact of dam removals on fish populations such as sturgeon in the Penobscot River, ME; developing alternatives where dam removal is not possible such as introducing freshwater flow attractants to the Army Corps of Engineers dams on the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers AL to facilitate fish passage through operation of navigation locks; and replacement of poorly designed or constructed culverts that act as barriers to fish passage. Together these projects have improved fish access to many watersheds. Project implementation involves numerous local partnerships which combined with community outreach, continue to influence the policy environment and public support for fish passage nationally.

Comments

Boze Hancock is a member of the Global Marine team at The Nature Conservancy where he is the TNC-NOAA CRP National Partnership Coordinator (bhancock@tnc.org). Boze has over 20 years of experience in marine research, working on the ecology, fisheries, restoration and management of coastal marine resources. For many years he worked in the tropical and temperate Indian and Southern Oceans of Western Australia, researching the fisheries ecology of marine invertebrates, primarily mollusks, and advising the fishing industry and fisheries managers. In 2004 Boze moved to Rhode Island and took up a position with NOAA’s restoration Center as coordinator of the North Cape Shellfish Restoration Program, a multi species program to restore bay scallop and eastern oyster populations, and to enhance quahog populations in Narragansett Bay and the coastal salt ponds in Rhode Island. He joined TNC in 2007 as coordinator of the TNC- NOAA CRP Partnership. In this position Boze provides technical support to the numerous project managers and teams that contribute to this partnership, acts as the contact person between NOAA and the field teams, and ensures that results and developments in the field are available to the relevant project managers.

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Jun 29th, 2:15 PM Jun 29th, 2:35 PM

Session C8- Migratory fish, Fish passage and the National Partnership between The Nature Conservancy and NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program

UMass Amherst

The National Partnership between TNC and NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program (CRP) is focused on habitat restoration as well as engaging and educating the community through hands-on restoration of habitats that support marine resources. Target habitats range from coral, mangrove and sponge community restoration in low latitudes to shellfish reefs and giant kelp habitat in temperate latitudes. Since 2001 the INC-NOAA CRP Partnership has funded over 110 restoration projects targeting a broad suite of habitats. The marine resources targeted by the partnership include migratory fish and the freshwater habitats that are essential for the completion of their life cycle. To 2010, 27 fish passage projects have been implemented totaling $4.2 million, with $1.7 million in federal support. Projects include dam removals such as those on the Mill River in Taunton, MA; investigating the impact of dam removals on fish populations such as sturgeon in the Penobscot River, ME; developing alternatives where dam removal is not possible such as introducing freshwater flow attractants to the Army Corps of Engineers dams on the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers AL to facilitate fish passage through operation of navigation locks; and replacement of poorly designed or constructed culverts that act as barriers to fish passage. Together these projects have improved fish access to many watersheds. Project implementation involves numerous local partnerships which combined with community outreach, continue to influence the policy environment and public support for fish passage nationally.