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NEW! Read about the Joint
Venture's Conservation Strategy HERE
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EBTJV Meeting Announcement – April 21-23, 2008 at NCTC. Click
here for more details.
Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture
The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is the nation's first pilot project under the
National Fish Habitat Initiative, which directs locally-driven efforts that build private and
public partnerships to improve fish habitat. The long-term goals of the EBTJV are to develop
a comprehensive restoration and education strategy to improve aquatic habitat, to raise
education awareness, and to raise federal, state and local funds for brook trout conservation.
In 2005, in recognition of the need to address regional and range-wide threats to
brook trout, a group of public and private entities formed the EBTJV to halt the decline of
brook trout and restore fishable populations. The group spearheaded a range-wide assessment
of brook trout populations and threats to brook trout and brook trout habitat in the Eastern
United States (report forthcoming). Seventeen states are currently drafting strategies to
prioritize policy changes and on-the-ground actions to improve water quality and restore brook
trout habitat and populations in their individual state using locally-driven, incentive-based,
and non-regulatory programs.
If you have any questions or concerns, please visit our contacts page.
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