From a researcher’s standpoint, the Cape Fear River Partnership provides a forum that allows us to keep up-to-date on other research, regulatory activities, and physical construction efforts to improve the fisheries environment in the river.  Such a forum provides information vital to prioritizing our own research efforts to work toward improving the river’s conditions as well as serving our higher education mission.

The partnership represents a diverse collaboration and only with diverse support can rock weirs be built at all three lock and dams to restore sturgeon and other rare aquatic animals and the habitat that supports them as well as making the Cape Fear River one of the best places to fish on the east coast.

The Partnership has been a vital link for keeping those of us in the Middle Cape Fear Basin up-to-date on the challenges that are being faced by the Lower Cape Fear Basin whether its water quality or fish passage.  It’s important to understand these challenges and the strategies being developed to address them so the Middle Basin can be part of the solution.

Having a diverse and knowledgeable coalition is so much more effective for tackling complex problems than going at it alone. Instead of checking out one book you have the whole library at your disposal.