LIVERMORE – A state biologist and volunteers plan to survey the Martin Stream, a self-sustaining trout fishery, from Brettun’s Pond off Route 4 to the Nezinscot River in Turner.
During the summer, the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife plans to measure widths at various places, checking habitats and recording water temperature for about 11.3 miles of the stream, which winds its way through the area, said Livermore Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub on Wednesday.
Biologist Bob Van Riper described the project at the May 16 selectpersons’ meeting, Schaub said.
It is a good fishery in a developing area, so the agency wants to survey it to establish basic information to use for future monitoring, Schaub said.
“It’s a very decent, producing trout stream,” he said. Since the stream is self-sustaining, it isn’t stocked by the state.
Plans call for using volunteers to do this, Schaub said. Many of them will be working out of canoes.
The state “sees north Turner and south Livermore as a developing area for housing, and so the potential exists for deterioration due to environmental impact of that development,” Schaub said.
Van Riper and volunteers will ask permission to go on private property in order to get to some areas of the stream, Schaub said.
Comments are no longer available on this story