RIVER HERRING IN THE NEWS

Sippican Week Herring count dips … again, local conservation group seeks answersBy Tyler A. McNeil | Jul 09, 2018 The number of river herring recorded in the Mattapoisett River is at a 13-year-low, according to a local herring preservation monitoring group. Alewives Anonymous in a letter sent out to the Rochester Board of Selectmen onRead more

USGS Fish Passage Research Helps Fish Get to Spawning GroundsUSGS Press Release Release Date: MAY 25, 2018 The Blackstone River in Rhode Island is where one of the Nation’s first fish passages was built back in 1714 to help fish navigate past manmade obstructions so they could complete their instinctual migration cycles. USGS researchers prepareRead more

Herring fish are now back in Horn PondDaily Times ChronicleMay 25, 2018 WOBURN – For the first time in generations, herring have returned to Horn Pond in Woburn. Since early May, river herring – ocean fish that return every year to fresh water – have been swimming up the rock spillway at Scalley Dam. TheyRead more

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Buzzards Bay Waters Offer Several Upper Cape Herring RunsMay 19, 2018CapeCod.com Courtesy of the Buzzards Bay Coalition. Carter Beal Conservation Area has a small footbridge across the Herring River at a fish ladder, where you might see river herring migrating upstream in spring on their way to Plymouth’s Great Herring Pond. BOURNE – The warmRead more

So close, yet so far: River herring at Kingston dam can’t access Silver Lake Wicked Local KingstonBy Kathryn Galleranikgallerani@wickedlocal.com Posted May 11, 2018 at 10:00 AMIt’s the first time in at least 100 years that anyone has documented river herring bumping up against the Forge Pond Dam. KINGSTON – It’s the first time in atRead more

Cape Cod Chronicle Progress Made On Cold Brook Conceptual Design09 May 2018By: William F. Galvin HARWICH — Progress has been made on the conceptual design for the Cold Brook Ecological Project being worked out between the town and the Harwich Conservation Trust. But there remain a number of questions over financing and the actual amountRead more

Program measures how far herring make it up Plymouth’s Town Brook Wicked Local PlymouthOld Colony Memorial By Frank Mandfmand@wickedlocal.com Posted May 5, 2018 at 1:00 PM“How’s the water?” That was what a passerby humorously called out to a group from the town’s Department of Marine and Environmental Affairs that was splashing around in Town Brook.Read more

Thousands Of Fish Churn Upstream At Pembroke’s Herring Brook PEMBROKE (CBS) – It’s a unique sight at a unique time of year as herring churn up the water, making their run in Massachusetts rivers, streams and ponds. Each spring they leave the ocean where they spend most of their lives, and move to freshwater toRead more

River herring return to Weymouth en masseMay 2, 2018Wicked Local WeymouthBy Weymouth News staff River herring, also known as alewives, returned to the Weymouth Herring Run in large numbers on Wednesday as temperatures rocketed into the 80′s. Thousands of herring were visible making their way towards the fish ladders in Jackson Square today. Herring preferRead more