(Washington, DC) - The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) has released a new Esri StoryMap, titled: Shared Waters. The StoryMap is all about Brook Trout and how its conservation helps sustain the forests and waters that sustain us. 

This StoryMap will take you on a trip, exploring new imagery, including underwater photos of Brook Trout in vibrant habitats and spawning in New England in the fall of 2025.

The release of Shared Waters comes as the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture and its partners prepare to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Fish Habitat Partnership in 2026, marking two decades of nationwide collaboration to protect and restore fish habitats across the US. Shared Waters is designed for a broad audience, including resource managers, conservation partners, educators, policymakers, and community members interested in learning more about Eastern Brook Trout conservation.

This Project was funded by a Multistate Conservation Grant (F23AP00525), a program funded from the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program, and jointly managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

Shared Waters - a StoryMap by the EBTJV

The EBTJV is a network of fisheries managers, scientists, nonprofits, state and federal agencies, regional and local governments, businesses, conservation organizations, academia, scientific societies, and Tribal organizations that is working to conserve healthy populations of brook trout in the eastern native range. We work collaboratively with partners at multiple geographic and jurisdictional scales to reverse the declining trend for wild Brook Trout, and are one of the twenty members of the National Fish Habitat Partnership.