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North River Smelt Restoration
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NOAA Restoration Center
Community-Based Restoration Program
North River Smelt Restoration
Restoration
Rock and gravel are delivered to the restoration site. The rock isplaced with a bucket and pay-loader.
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Volunteers move the new fish habitat.
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Initial arrival of the raw fish habitat.
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PG&E; Corp assist the project by providing a front-end loader and manpower for the volunteer-based restoration project.
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Cobble habitat is tossed into North River to replace storm water sedimentson the river bottom.
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Volunteers work to restore smelt spawning habitat.
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State biologists Brad Chase and Mike Armstrong search for smelt eggs.A 2001 discovery of smelt eggs in the river led to the development of theinitial development of the restoration project.
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Mike Armstrong, Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries,pitches in at the restoration site.
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Volunteers work on site with Karen Young (standing) of Salem Sound2000.
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Volunteers at the town boundary work to place habitat structure.
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Volunteers take a hard-earned lunch break.
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Volunteers place two sizes of rock at the site, large and small cobble.
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The restored bottom in the foreground of the picture.
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Looking downstream, note the new light colored rocks on the bottom.
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A patch of new spawning habitat.
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A close-up of a small size patch of new habitat.
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100,000 pounds of stone later...Volunteers smile and relax after completion ofthe work.
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