RIVER HERRING IN THE NEWS

One month countdown to the Herring Run Festival beginsDespite the runaway success of last year’s event, organizers say operations should go even smoother the second time around SouthCoast Today By Matthew Ferreira/Staff Writer Posted Mar. 21, 2015 at 4:32 PM MIDDLEBORO — Last year, the first Herring Run Festival brought in thousands of visitors fromRead more

Weymouth’s herring run is about to get its annual spring cleaning By Natalie OrnellThe Patriot Ledger Posted Mar. 21, 2015 at 12:01 AM WEYMOUTH – George Loring said he’s been involved in Weymouth’s herring run since 1988. That, he points out, isn’t a very long time when you consider that herring have been swimming throughRead more

Help herring run in OrleansWicked Local Orleans The annual clean up of sticks and leaves from the Orleans Herring Run is scheduled for Saturday, March 21, at 9 a.m.By Staff reports Posted Mar. 20, 2015 at 11:04 AMUpdated at 11:07 AM The annual clean up of sticks and leaves from the Orleans Herring Run isRead more

Adopt A Herring – Editorial Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2015 5:49 pmENTERPRISE STAFF Residents can ‘adopt’ a herring to help track the populations, where they go after spawning and where exactly they spawn. The Coonamessett River Trust and the town’s office of marine and environmental services will tag up to 400 herring coming up theRead more

Annual river herring count to begin April 1 Wicked Local GloucesterPosted Mar. 12, 2015 at 2:09 PM GLOUCESTEREach spring for over 10 years, the City of Gloucester, the Eight Towns and the Great Marsh Committee and NOAA-NMFS have coordinated the annual river herring (alewife) count at the top of the fish ladder by the WestRead more

Coonamessett River Herring To Be TaggedThe Enterprise Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:17 pmENTERPRISE STAFF Using radio collars on bears or bands on a bird’s legs is a method to track their seasonal migration and movements. The same methods can be used on fish. The Coonamessett River Trust (CRT), working with Falmouth’s Office of MarineRead more

Middleboro Herring Festival set for April Middleboro EnterpriseBy Enterprise Staff Posted Mar. 11, 2015 at 1:29 PM MIDDLEBORO – Town selectmen Monday night approved a request from the Middleboro Tourism Committee to hold the second annual Herring Festival at Oliver Mill Park, on Route 44, on April 11 and April 12 from 10 a.m. toRead more

Castine Patriot, February 19, 2015Committee seeks to ‘re-establish local control’ over alewife fishery by Anne Berleant An new advisory committee formed to address alewife fishing in Penobscot waters has hooked its first guest. Claire Enterline of the Maine Department of Marine Resources will meet with the committee on Tuesday, February 24, to discuss the alewifeRead more

GROUPS GO TO COURT TO PROTECT BLUEBACK HERRING FROM EXTINCTIONChallenge flawed decision not to list imperiled river herring as a “threatened species” February 10, 2015 Washington, D.C. — Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of fishing and watershed protection groups filed a complaint today in federal court seeking to reverse aRead more

Herring Deserve Listing as Theatened, Groups SayBy AMANDA LOVIZA-VICKERYCourthouse News WASHINGTON (CN) – Blueback herrings deserve designation as a threatened species, environmentalists say in court, noting the critical role the fish play in Atlantic coastal ecosystems.Blueback herring populations are a tiny fraction of what they once were, and the Secretary of Commerce violated the EndangeredRead more