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For 25 years, Robert “Max” Holmes has worked on river systems around the world — the Mekong in Southeast Asia, the Amazon in South America, the Congo in Africa, the Lena in Arctic Russia.

“I ignored the rivers around here for most of that time,” said Holmes, the deputy director and a senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center. That changed with the gift of a fly rod to his son in 2015. The pair had so much fun fishing that Christmas in Colorado that Holmes researched local rivers and came across the effort to restore the Cape’s sea-run brook trout. Coincidentally, he noticed the paucity of data on those rivers.

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