Bringing “Salter” Brook Trout Back to Cape Cod

Juvenile brook trout, or parr, have vertical bars that assist camouflage them; these fish are most weak after they’re small. Photograph: Jeff Parsons, by way of The Provincetown Unbiased

Sea-run brook trout, often called “salters,” used to run up rivers all through the Northeast, however a mixtures of habitat destruction, dams, and competitors from different species eradicated a lot of the anadromous populations by the mid 1900s. An interesting article by Jim Gilbert in The Provincetown Unbiased affords a short historical past of salters on Cape Cod and descriptions efforts to carry them again:

Now, with the efforts of fishermen, authorities fisheries workers, native tribes, native cities, Cape Cod Nationwide Seashore scientists, and a military of volunteers, lots of the Cape’s salter streams are being restored. Recent Brook is poised to be the subsequent Cape Cod stream to recuperate its once-famous fish. 

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