Seaway Marine Group provides specialized services to agencies involved in the conservation, protection, and management of fish, wildlife, plants and their natural habitats. These services include fish stocking, spawning bed construction and habitat rehabilitation.
Fisheries Work
Featured Project -
Fish Spawning Bed Construction, the Black River & Chaumont Bay, NY
Owner: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation & U.S. Geological Survey
Prime: Seaway Marine Group, LLC
Using our Trimble® GPS equipped long reach excavator we placed approximately 6,000 tons of stone in the Black River and Chaumont Bay to create fish spawning beds. The target species for Chaumont Bay are lake whitefish and cisco fish, both of which are prey fish, and in Black River the target species are lake sturgeon and walleye.
Featured Project -
Lake Trout Habitat Rehabilitation Project, Brocton Shoal, Lake Erie, NY
Owner: NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit
Prime: Seaway Marine Group, LLC
Seaway Marine Group was contracted to work on this experimental habitat reclamation project. Seaway successfully designed, fabricated and deployed a high-velocity jetting nozzle at two test sites removing silt, sand and dreissenid mussel shells covering the rock piles. DEC staff deployed an underwater. drone to evaluate and adjust the method in real time. These sites lie in 50-60 feet of water, greatly increasing the difficulty of the work and making the resulting clean rock that much more impressive. This habitat rehabilitation project is the latest of several important DEC initiatives to identify, assess, and restore lake trout spawning habitat. The success of this high-velocity jetting method on Brocton Shoal provides an effective option for future reclamation work.
See link to DEC press release here.
