Fish Passage Outcome Justification
This fact sheet explains why the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement includes a Fish Passage Outcome and how this outcome was developed.
Description
Fish Passage Outcome: Continually increase available habitat to support sustainable migratory fish populations in freshwater rivers and streams. By 2025, restore historical fish migratory routes by opening 1,000 additional stream miles, with restoration success indicated by the consistent presence of alewife, blueback herring, American shad, hickory shad, American eel and brook trout, to be monitored in accordance with available agency resources and collaboratively developed methods.