Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
Priority Conservation Action, Focal Species, or Focal Habitats • Reintroduce or augment rare fish populations in areas where water quality and stream habitats have recovered sufficiently to support them. Examples include:
Cape Fear Shiner Carolina Madtom
Roanoke Logperch Robust Redhorse
Spotfin Chub
• Support incentive and information programs that help reduce impervious surface and sedimentation/erosion, minimize pesticide and herbicide use, and modernize wastewater treatment facilities. • Protect and restore native, forested riparian buffers. Shading reduces water temperatures and provides detritus that is critical to food webs and cover. Riparian forest • Develop strategies to mitigate Flathead/Blue Catfish impacts (and other exotics) on native species, including education and outreach programs to educate the public about the impacts of introduced species and how to prevent further introductions. Blue Catfish Flathead Catfish • Protect and restore fish access to habitat in streams and gene flow, where appropriate, via efforts to prevent and remove lateral blockages, or if blockage removal is not feasible to otherwise provide fish passage (CFRP 2013) . • Restore fish passage around dams and other barriers to allow migratory fish to reach historic spawning sites. Sites include: Buckhorn Dam, Cape Fear River Lockville Dam, Deep River • Update and expand fish hatchery facilities to support successful propagation of declining and state protected species.
3.5.8.5 Conservation Programs and Partnerships Conservation programs, incentives, and partnerships should be used to the fullest extent to preserve high-quality resources and protect important natural communities. Protective measures that use existing regulatory frameworks to protect habitats and species should be
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