Bringing Back Salmon: A Research and Restoration Partnership (Part 2)

A partnership of federal and state agencies, local businesses, Universities and watershed organizations has employed innovative research techniques to develop a better understanding of a complex ecosystem and restore salmon habitat. This video is the second of a three-part series focusing on Atlantic salmon restoration in the Lake Champlain Basin.

[@joelloyd6069]

such a great project !! there is nothing like this if your an outdoors person. I fish in Pulaski NY and it's the greatest thing to see even if your not fishing. Definitely a Bucket List for everyone. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

So cool guys, as a Canadian I’ve given up on Atlantics in my area except northern superior and Huron, although a few do spawn near my hometown of Toronto Ontario…. I would never have guessed in the lower 48, but that river looks like good quality water, good luck!

[@Abe-qu9tl]

awesome work. Could be useful to tell us what indicator species and key stone species mean at the beginning.

[@joelloyd6069]

fantastic

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Thx

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

Brook trout are the official indicator species.

[@omega4chimp]

Is Alberta stocked?

[@lag9765]

And here in California our governor, Gavin Newsom, has given into the big ag almond farmers and Westland Water District with his hair brain attempts to deliver more water to produce millions of tons of almond for export over seas. Moreover, as dams are being removed he has proposed building another dam and continues to support the delta tunnels which will lead to the extinction of our salmon in the Sacramento River Watershed. What a shame as at one time there were hundreds of millions of salmon in California and today the salmon have been reduce to 5% of their original population. Thank you for all that you do to protect our natural recourses...

[@standingbear998]

if left alone and let nature work they will come back. people just won't leave anything alone and wonder why it is screwed up.

[@jimmyreece5781]

That's a weird name

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

Why not a permanent solution to the lamprey. There is a freshwater seal in a Russian Lake that is going extinct because everyone wants to build houses on that lake and nobody wants live seals crapping on their docks. These seals eat almost nothing but lamprey. A few pairs of the seals would save them and certainly end the lamprey.

[@jeremyatkinson4976]

Have you not read what the Cane Toad did in Australia, not to mention the disastrous introductions in New Zealand?

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

My issue is that if you start altering genetics in the fry you have completely lost the native characteristics. Has anyone ever studied the species that consume any gen mod fish? Does it affect them negatively? Nature will always further a species if it’s necessary to the ecosystem. Man cannot combat that.

[@fishinnewengland4807]

The native characteristics have been gone for hundreds of years.

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

@@fishinnewengland4807 Lol! Exactly!

[@obiwahndagobah9543]

Genetic modification per se is a non-issue. Firstly natural mutations happen all the time from each generation to the next and secondly they just want to select for the most tolerant fish to lack of Vitamin-B. They don't want to genetically modify them, but just selectively breed them.

[@Franky46Boy]

You're confusing genetic modification with selective breeding (done by human selection as well as natural selection). Of course natural selection is to be preferred because it makes for better survival under natural conditions.
In this documentary it is already mentioned that salmon that were the result of captive breeding programs had lower returns (less returning and spawning) than salmon that were bred from eggs that were stripped from salmon that had completed the natural life cycle during one or more generations.