A tool for understanding likely fish passage and harvest management outcomes for alewife on the St. Croix River

The board incorporated recently developed alewife population models into a user friendly, plain language tool depicting the theoretical outcomes of: i) changes in fish passage and ii) commercial harvest to alewife runs in the St. Croix River. The end-product was a graphic web-based application that can inform future management scenarios by providing a clear communication platform to weigh the theoretical pros and cons of specific options. Results from this user-friendly, plain-language tool will provide a clear platform for communication and weighing and assessing pros and cons associated with theoretical management scenarios. This project is also highlighted in our IWI projects StoryMap here.