Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network (DSRRN)





*The Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network* 2010 Workshop Resilience of North Atlantic Diadromous Fish Assemblages: a Restoration Perspective. DSRRN will be holding its first specialized workshop this April entitled ‘Resilience of North Atlantic Diadromous Fish Assemblages: a Restoration Perspective.' This workshop is an outgrowth of the three-day DSRRN symposium held at the University of Maine in July 2009, ‘Restoration of Diadromous Fishes and their Ecosystems: Confluence of Science and Restoration.' This is the first of three workshops designed to generate synthesis papers addressing issues of resilience (April 2010), natural variability (Fall 2010), and restoration and species management (Spring 2011) of diadromous fish species and their ecosystems. The goal of this workshop is to develop a synthesis paper which will identify and synthesize factors and species interactions that contribute to North Atlantic diadromous fish assemblage resilience in the context of restoration. Approximately 20 specialists have been identified and asked to participate in this year-long process involving pre-workshop literature review, post-workshop problem statements and integration, and writing and publishing the synthesis paper. While the composition of this workshop is specialized and limited; DSRRN welcomes your input and encourages you to contact the coordinator for more information: barbara.s.arter@umit.maine.edu . We will post more information as the process develops. _________________________________________________ *The Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network Science Meeting 2009* Restoration of Diadromous Fishes and Their Ecosystems: Confluence of Science and Restoration CONFERENCE MATERIALS Plenary Speaker Presentations George Pess, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center: “Open It and They Will Come: Examples of river reconnection and salmon colonization from the Pacific Rim” Margaret Palmer, University of Maryland: “ Life After Death: Can Chesapeake Bay tributaries be revived?” (This PPT is unavailable at the request of the presenter.) David Montgomery, University of Washington: "King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon" Gerald Chaput, Fisheries and Oceans Canada: “Temporal and spatial variation in abundance and distribution of diadromous fish in an unimpacted large river: a case study from the Miramichi River.” *Break Out Sessions* Ecosystem Interactions Synergistic interactions and productivity, role of marine-derived nutrients, legacy geomorphological features, habitat availability and use Breakout Session Notes Annotated Bibliography KB Query of Bibliographic Abstracts Restorations as Experiments Designing projects to answer science questions, contemporary alterations to ecosystems, adaptive management of restoration efforts Breakout Session Notes Annotated Bibliography KB Query of Bibliographic Abstracts Natural Variability Natural variability in diadromous fish populations when dams are not a factor, setting restoration targets, what baseline population numbers should be used? Breakout Session Notes Annotated Bibliography KB Query of Bibliographic Abstracts Future Workshops (Years 2, 3 & 4) Watch this site for information on the 2010 workshop! Our plan is to select, as a group, three workshop topics that best fit the criteria above. These workshop topics may be distinct, or, depending on the group’s feedback, may build on one another. Each workshop is envisioned as a year long (or more) project, beginning with literature review, problem statements and planning efforts by a graduate student and advisory members (PIs) of the network, leading to a two-day intensive workshop, and culminating in A synthetic paper on the workshop topic and, Immediate management/science feedback for the PRRP and similar projects. Our hope is that these workshops will promote interaction between scientists and managers, with significant feedback between scientists and managers in the field. We hope that this will be an iterative process in which management needs can help shape workshop topics, and workshops can provide information to managers. Final Science Meeting (Year 5) The final Science Meeting will serve to synthesize efforts to date, and set the agenda for the next phase of restoration efforts (post dam removal) and new science. POSTINGS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS Stakeholder's Workshop - Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 Agenda (pdf doc) Questions for Stakeholders (pdf doc)		Conference Plenary Speakers (L-R) Margaret Palmer, Gerald Chaput, George Pess, David Montgomery. Andy Goode of the Atlantic Salmon Federation talks about habitat on the Penobscot Field Trip. Participants discuss Ecosystem Interactions during the breakout sessions.