Habitat Special Reports

Fishery Management Plans seeking to restore populations must recognize the need to reconnect fish with such habitat by getting the runs past stream barriers. This document summarizes the evaluation by the Fish Passage Working Group of available technologies to accomplish effective passage.

Habitat Management Series #10 — Wave action, shoreline erosion, and the mixing of saline and fresh waters are a few of the physical processes in estuaries and coastal zones that help create and maintain diverse habitat for resident and transient marine species.

One of the primary tasks of the Habitat Program is to develop habitat source documents on topics of immediate and broad interest to ASMFC Commissioners that will provide needed information to the states. In this case, Commissioners requested detailed information on the habitat use, threats to habitat, and habitat research needs for all life stages of the ASMFC-managed diadromous species.

The FERC Permitting and Review Process presented by Medha Kochhar, Office of Energy Projects, FERC

“How energy companies go about projects that may have impacts on fish” presented by Douglas A. Dixon, Ph.D., at the ASMFC Energy Development Workshop

Considerations for Fisheries & Habitat Conservation During State Permitting presented by Vin Malkowski, Senior Marine Fisheries Biologist

Ecological Impacts of Energy Infrastructure Installations in Aquatic Settings presented by Mike Ludwig, Ocean & Coastal Consultants