RIVER HERRING IN THE NEWS

Save the Date! The 5th Annual River Herring Network Meeting will take place on:  Thursday October 15th, 2015 This year the Pembroke Herring Fisheries Commission has offered to host the meeting.  It will take place at the Pembroke Public Library located at 142 Center St, Pembroke, MA 02359.A survey will be sent out soon asking for yourRead more

Gloucester to remove fish ladderGloucester Times Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 9:07 amBy Ray Lamont Staff Writer When the city of Gloucester built its West Gloucester water treatment plant nearly 50 years ago, a narrow stream meandered through the property, carrying alewife, smelt and other fish up to Lily Pond to spawn.So the construction ofRead more

Herring Can Get it On in Bronx River for First Time in More Than 300 Years  DNA InfoBy Eddie Small | June 5, 2015 3:12pm | Updated June 8, 2015 8:51am@eddie_small THE BRONX — Alewife herring can get busy in the Bronx River for the first time since the 1600s. A newly installed fish ladder at the waterway’s 182ndRead more

Camera counts fish at Ipswich damWicked Local Ipswich By Lauren Bartlett Posted Jun. 6, 2015 at 7:29 PM IPSWICHLocated below the waters of the Ipswich River, the Ipswich River Watershed Association installed a camera to track the population of fish at the River Walk dam’s fish ladder.Each spring, the fish counting begins and this isRead more

Herring update in Orleans Staff photo by Doreen Leggett. A volunteer fills out the herring log. Doreen Leggett@dleggettCodder Wicked Local ChathamPosted May. 23, 2015 at 6:00 AM On an overcast and chilly Monday – with the stream low because the tide was out – no alewives made the trek past the counting station into PilgrimRead more

American eel remains one of nature’s mysteries Martha’s Vineyard Timesby Nelson Sigelman – May 20, 2015 A journey that began thousands of miles away from Martha’s Vineyard continued with a struggle just beyond an Island roadway. One week ago Monday, I joined a small group on the bank of Mill Brook, just below the agingRead more

In Benton, dinner crowd says alewives are good eating An annual dinner seeks to introduce people to the native river fish, while advocates look for possible consumer markets. BY PETER MCGUIRE STAFF WRITERpmcguire@centralmaine.com | @PeteL_McGuireCentralMaine.com BENTON — The menu included locally smoked whole alewife and two varieties of alewife chowder and lobster, along with traditionalRead more

State’s efforts to aid herring migration sees success Newburyport News Posted: Monday, May 18, 2015 3:20 am |Staff reports BYFIELD — In the distant past, so many herring swam up the Parker River in the spring that fishermen could harvest a half million of them, and still more would come.But like so many species ofRead more

Fore River restoration is a work in progress in Braintree, Weymouth Every spring, hundreds of thousands of fish once made the annual four mile trek from Hingham Bay to Great Pond to spawn. Wicked Local Weymouth By Robert MichelsonCorrespondent Posted May. 14, 2015 at 11:45 AM BRAINTREEThe Weymouth Fore River is a complex system ofRead more

NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region Press Release NOAA Fisheries and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (Commission) announce the release of the River Herring Conservation Plan. The goals of the plan are to increase public awareness about river herring (alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (A. aestivalis)), and to foster cooperative research and conservation effortsRead more