Conserving, Restoring, Reversing Decline
 

The Northeast Region's fisheries management program addresses the critical issues that impact aquatic habitat and the animal and plant species that it supports. Here you will find information about some of these issues and see what we are doing about them.

• Interim National Guidelines for Hatchery Management Decisions Regarding Contaminants in Catchable-Size Fish Produced by the National Fish Hatchery System

• Draft plan guides recovery of endangered Atlantic salmon in eight Maine rivers
  
  
• Testing of fish hatchery broodstock and their use in state waters
  
  
• Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV): A threat to sea-run Atlantic salmon
  
  
• National Fish Passage Program: Removing barriers to natural fish migration
  — Fish barrier removal activities in the Northeast
  
  
• Conserving America's Fisheries: Invasive species and loss of habitat are the two most significant threats to the diversity of aquatic systems.