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I recently attended a presentation by Brian Jollymore and Phil Zamora (Retd) from DFO and was pleasantly surprised and pleased to find that there is an active plan being executed with involvement from Minas Basin Group (owners of 2 dams on the river) and DFO staff from BIO to re-establish a run of Inner Bay of Fundy (iBoF) salmon on the Halfway River just east of Hantsport, using hatchlings from nearby and relatively healthy Gaspereau River broodstock. I believe they feel the two systems share similar features - topology, hydrology and whatnot - (no expert me!) such that it would significantly enhance the probability of success for this undertaking. The DFO folks seemed quite optimistic that when the manmade obstacles - 2 30-40 foot dams, one an ogee - were overcome the habitat was highly suitable. They were quite excited and optimistic of the prospects. Very cool. Good news for this devastated stock and cheers to Minas Basin Inc for co-operating in a very material way. I walked out to the 'Front' dam last week - the first on the river - and a large concrete structure which I believe is the base of a dam bypass/ladder is already in place.
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