How about Deleware River streamflow and the NYC water supply? The NJ and PA local fly fishing sites could supply you with plenty of contacts.

Public access to streams in Maine. Access was great when land was privately owned by timber companies...now it's getting iffy as the timber companies sell off the land.

I don't know a thing about the specifics how the stripers have came back, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an accident. People even fish the Hackensack River now!

The Salem Evening News north of Boston runs a ton of articles about commercial fishing regulations up there. Sad stories about guys really struggling to hang on.