Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture
Background
The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is the nation's first pilot project under the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, which directs locally-driven efforts that build private and public partnerships to improve fish habitat.
Eastern Brook Trout Coverage Area (click for larger version in new window)
The long-term goals of the EBTJV are to develop a comprehensive restoration and education strategy to improve aquatic
habitat, to raise education awareness, and to raise federal, state and local funds for brook trout conservation.
Coverage Area
The EBTJV assessment team evaluated and assigned a status to 11,400 subwatersheds in 17 states in the Appalachian region,
an area that represents 70% of the historical range of brook trout in the United States.
Incorporating the EBTJV data into the NFDI framework
The subwatersheds used by the EBTJV are approximately 6th level (12 digit) watersheds, and are thus smaller than the
mapping unit of the NFDI project (4th level, 8 digit HUC). For the purposes of the NFDI, in order to present
the EBTJV data with no bias, if Brook Trout are present in any subwatershed within a HUC8, the status for the entire
parent HUC8 watershed is reported as "Present" in NFDI.