Two projects in Massachusetts have been awarded 2017 Community-based Restoration Program Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Grants through the NOAA Habitat Conservation office. The full list of projects can be viewed on the NOAA Habitat Conservation website at: http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/highlights/4andahalfmillionrestorationprojects.html NortheastHolmes Dam Removal ($1,500,000): This project, in partnership with the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, will removeRead more
RIVER HERRING IN THE NEWS
15 year effort to restore Town Brook gets $1.5 million push Wicked Local Plymouth By Frank Mandfmand@wickedlocal.com Posted Jul 27, 2017 at 1:00 PMIt’s easy to be complacent about the 15-year effort to restore historic Town Brook to its pre-industrial vitality. PLYMOUTH – It’s easy to be complacent about the 15-year effort to restore historicRead more
Sensors count herring hatchlings at Brewster run By Rich Eldred reldred@wickedlocal.comPosted Jul 29, 2017 at 6:31 AM BREWSTER — No longer can little herring sneak out to sea anonymously. Facial recognition is being applied at the Stony Brook herring run in Brewster. Actually, you can’t see the smiling faces of happy herring as they flyRead more
Photo Gallery: Video system installed at Brewster herring runCape Cod TimesJuly 26, 2017 A video monitoring system was installed at the Stony Brook Herring Run Tuesday afternoon to count juvenile herring. Experimental software technology is being used to count the juvenile herring. Christopher George, an Association to Preserve Cape Cod intern, is doing the projectRead more
Sandwich’s Longtime Natural Resources Chief DepartsBy TAO WOOLFE Jul 21, 2017 The Sandwich Enterprise Mark S. Galkowski, conservationist, hunter, sailor, storyteller, teacher, and longtime town employee, will never escape his most famous act: reintroducing wild turkeys to Cape Cod. “Now they’re the rats of Cape Cod,” said Town Manager George H. (Bud) Dunham, who couldRead more
Maine’s river herring making dramatic comeback, a godsend for the food chainWith the path to inland spawning grounds clear, the species rebounds with unexpected speed, benefiting everything from bald eagles to Atlantic cod. Portland Press HeraldJuly 16, 2017 BY COLIN WOODARDSTAFF WRITER BATH — Motorists crossing the bridge over the Kennebec this spring and earlyRead more
Mysteries of Mill Brook Are Subject for Intense StudyAlex ElvinThursday, June 22, 2017 The Vineyard Gazette On a bright afternoon last week, Bill Wilcox stood on a dirt road in Chilmark and peered through the foliage at a shallow impoundment near the headwaters of the Mill Brook. A few frogs could be heard croaking inRead more
Save the Date! The River Herring Network 2017 annual meeting will take place on Thursday, November 2 at the Sandwich Town Hall in their beautifully restored auditorium. A survey with ideas for topics and speakers will be sent out in early August. ]]>Read more
The ‘Rewilding’ of a Century-Old Cranberry BogJuly 4, 2017New York TimesBy Jess Bidgood PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in the stream. It was a normal springtime pilgrimage for the fish, which lives in theRead more
As dams come down, herring return to Shawsheen River The Boston GlobeKEITH BEDFORD/GLOBE STAFF Jon Honea weighs down a tarp used to make spotting fish easier in the Shawsheen River in Andover. By Don Lyman GLOBE CORRESPONDENT JUNE 23, 2017On a warm, sunny morning, Jon Honea and Burt Batcheller stood on the pedestrian bridge atRead more
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