Atlantic Salmon Habitat Restoration & Enhancement Phase 6 + Post-tropical Storm Fiona Recovery

Description: The Hillsborough River Association (HRA) and Pisquid River Enhancement Project (PREP) will continue implementing the recommendations from the Conservation Strategy for Atlantic Salmon on PEI (Guignion et al 2019).

They will: maintain beaver-free zones on Pisquid and Clark’s, open salmon infrastructure access, remove blowdowns to restore fish access, excavate silt from sediment ponds that serve as holding pools, monitor water temperature and nitrate levels, continue salmon redd and electrofishing surveys, educate student employees, elementary school students, and landowners, acknowledge FCAS contributions via social media, and release the annual Hillsborough Tidings newsletter.

They will also install 2 pairs of natural flow deflector logs and 2 digger logs to create 4 new holding pools, install 30 meters of brush mats, plant and maintain 200 native trees and shrubs to enrich biodiversity and create stream shade, install 5 floating log cover structures, and continue the assessment and amelioration of critical areas of damage from post-tropical storm Fiona where necessary.