The use of best management practices can reduce the effects of agriculture and forestry activities on water quality. Information about forestry and agricultural best management practices is available from all UNH Cooperative Extension county offices. County Extension offices Aquaculture Aquaculture extension programs within New Hampshire are designed to assist both potential and existing aquaculture operations with all aspects of the business. These include species identification, broodstock care, nutrition, disease, systems design, marketing, permitting and business plans.
Emphasis is placed on a variety of freshwater and marine finfish, shellfish and seaweed species.
Extension staff work closely with the aquaculture research community, both at UNH and elsewhere, to bring the latest technology to the industry. Extension staff help fishermen identify needs and issues and then use University of New Hampshire resources to address these issues. Extension assisted two fishermen's cooperatives and the New Hampshire Commercial Fishermen's Association get started and continue to work with them. The goal of this program is to reduce non-point source water pollution in the Connecticut River Watershed. Forestry initiatives directed at reducing non-point source pollution from forest lands include event demonstrations, workshops, and publications aimed at promoting forestry management practices to prevent soil erosion and sedimentation in woodland management.