EBTJV's Vision:
Healthy Coldwater Systems with Fishable Brook Trout Populations Throughout Their Historic Eastern Geographic Range
Our Mission:
The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is a geographically focused, locally driven and scientifically based effort to protect, restore and enhance aquatic habitat throughout the brook trout's Eastern US native range. Learn more
Our mission is to secure resilient populations of wild Brook Trout by protecting, enhancing, and restoring aquatic habitat and increasing human connections to, and stewardship of, our natural environment.
NEWS and EVENTS
NCWRC research on Helene impacts gets radio attention
Radio story featuring Jake Rash on the effects of the 2024 hurricane Helene on brook trout…Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Awards FY25 projects
EBTJV-NFHP-FWS awards were announced in late…Meet Stephanie Chance and the Tennessee Aquarium
What unites Brook Trout, Laurel Dace, and Lake Sturgeon? EBTJV invited Stephanie Chance of the…AFS recognizes VFWD biologist Jud Kratzer's research on strategic wood addition
In March, Jud Kratzer formally received the 2024 AFS Fisheries Administration Section’s award…Update to the EBTJV assessment
The EBTJV Catchment Updater is a data visualization and decision support tool that was developed to update EBTJV catchment codes representing salmonid species presence. This tool was designed to assist federal and state agencies, local decision-makers, regional planners, conservation organizations, and natural resource managers using open-source software. This assessment is a screening tool; it is not intended to be used as the only step in determining a brook trout-related project location.
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