You can't travel between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick without passing through the prairie-like Tantramar Marshes.Historically sprawling saltmarsh on the Bay of Fundy coast, the landscape was dyked and drained by European settlers in the 1600s. Today, the Tantramar is a mix of cropland and grassland, and restored marshes - including the expansive Missaquash Marsh. In fact, this wetland landscape is so alluring to animal travellers that it's become known as a kind of wildlife highway.
Though not as easily spotted as deer or black duck, fish like alewife use the Missaquash just as much. Alewife, or gaspereau, spend their lives at sea, but then return to freshwater and lakes when it's time to spawn. Ducks Unlimited Canada has been working with Acadia University students to tag these little fish and study their movements to help more of them get up into their historical spawning habitats, including Missaquash Marsh.
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