| Tusket River | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Long Tusket Lake |
| Mouth | Gulf of Maine |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Length | 93 km (58 mi) |
| Mouth elevation | sea level |
The Tusket River is a Canadian river located in Nova Scotia's Yarmouth County.
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The Tusket River is a major river system and drainage basin in Yarmouth County in southern Nova Scotia. It has numerous branches and associated rivers, and also flows through a series of lakes. Near its mouth, the river becomes a tidal estuary, with the water becoming brackish due to mixing of the river's fresh water with salt brought upstream from the Gulf of Maine by incoming tides.
This land is part of the Tobeatic Wilderness Area. The whole area forms parts of a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.
Fishing in the Tusket River is very popular. It was named one of the top 10 fishing spots in the world by The Guardian in 2006.
The northernmost known occurrences of the groundseltree (Baccharis halimifolia) are in and near the Tusket River Estuary.[1] This white-flowering shrub in the aster family ranges southward along the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains to Florida and Texas.
Communities located along the Tusket River, from northeast to southwest, include: