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Downeast Trout Unlimited meeting March 17 March 15, 2021 on News, Waterfront
ELLSWORTH The Maine brook trout is the focus of the next Downeast Trout Unlimited meeting on Wednesday, March 17.
The online meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. and will take place via Zoom. A busines meeting will be followed by two speakers.
At 5:45, Merry Gallagher, native fish conservation biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Division of Fisheries and Hatcheries, will present “Maine’s Wild Brook Trout: Past, Present and Future.” Gallagher is a stream ecologist with over 20 years experience in stream survey methodology, native fish ecology and GIS data analysis. She manages the IFW Stream Survey database and has overseen efforts to convert historic fisheries data into GIS-compatible formats to improve the general knowledge regarding the distribution and status of Maine’s native fishes.
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Merry Gallagher and Brett Ciccotelli will present during the Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Downeast Trout Unlimited meeting.
Gallagher’s talk, “Maine’s Wild Brook Trout: The past, present and future of a Heritage Fish” will explore the status of Maine’s wild brook trout, with a bit of history and future conservation and management goals for this iconic species.
Merry Gallagher is a Native Fish Conservation Biologist with MDIFW’s Division of Fisheries & Hatcheries, is a stream ecologist with over 20 years’ experience in stream survey methodology, native fish ecology, and GIS data analysis. Gallagher manages the IFW Stream Survey database and has overseen efforts to convert historic fisheries data into GIS compatible formats to improve the general knowledge regarding the distribution and status of Maine s native fishes.