The East Fork White River is important habitat for two fish, both federally listed as threatened: the loach minnow and Apache trout, an important sport fish.

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But every day, hundreds of ASF volunteers battle for the species on the ground, rebuilding and restoring river and fish-spawning habitat in the Atlantic Canada provinces and Maine.

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During the monsoon, when the plains around the river and its tributaries flood, the habitat for fish suddenly increases by as much as ten times.

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Authorities have built a fence in the Fort Wayne area to prevent the carp from migrating from the Wabash to the headwaters of the Maumee River, a Lake Erie tributary regarded as ideal spawning habitat.

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Earlier the inquiry at Lymington Town Hall heard that Wightlink had agreed with Natural England that material dredged from the river would be used to replenish Boiler Marsh, a natural habitat in Lymington Harbour.

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As a braided river, typified by shallow, meandering channels separated by sandbars, it is an ideal crane habitat.

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