April 1-2, 2014

Resilience of North Atlantic Diadromous Fish Assemblages: A Restoration Perspective

April 1-2, 2010 at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine

DSRRN held its first specialized workshop in April 2010, entitled ‘Resilience of North Atlantic Diadromous Fish Assemblages: A Restoration Perspective.’ This workshop was 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 was the first of three workshops designed to generate synthesis papers addressing issues of resilience (April 2010), natural variability (May 2011), and restoration and species management (Spring 2012) of diadromous fish species and their ecosystems.

The goal of this workshop was to develop a synthesis paper that would identify and synthesize factors and species interactions that contribute to North Atlantic diadromous fish assemblage resilience in the context of restoration. Approximately 20 specialists were identified and asked to participate in this yearlong process involving pre-workshop literature review, post-workshop problem statements and integration, and writing and publishing the synthesis paper.