Mission: The Hammond River Angling Association (HRAA) is a non-profit environmental organization, whose mandate is to protect and preserve the Hammond River watershed through education, conservation, and community interaction.
Since its inception in 1977, the HRAA has engaged in many fish habitat and population enhancement programs, and our main objective is to continue to collaborate with other watershed organizations, Indigenous communities, and provincial and federal partners to further augment the Hammond River, a valuable tributary of the Wolastoq-Saint John River. Some of these activities have included Atlantic Salmon brood stock collection and stocking programs, wetland delineation, bank stabilization, tree planting, land conservation through participating in Canada’s Nature Legacy and the creation of “Theobald Lake- Candidate Protected Natural Area”, ecological research and inventories (with a focus on aquatic and terrestrial species at risk and invasive species), culvert and fish passage assessments and remediation, extensive water quality monitoring and cyanobacterial sampling, industrial environmental compliance monitoring, community outreach, volunteer and citizen science opportunities (rain gauges, “Riverkeepers-Citizen Water Quality Monitoring”, Atlantic Salmon redd counts, shoreline cleanup initiatives, “EcoLogic” classes in local schools). The HRAA also hosts the Hammond River Nature Camp, an environmentally educational summer camp, that attracts over 300 youth each year.
Donation Use: Donations will go towards our Youth Environmental Programming that we offer, free of charge, to local children in our area! The greater the hands-on learning, the greater the long-lasting impact, contributing to fostering the next generation of environmental stewards.
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