RIVER HERRING IN THE NEWS

Environmentalists celebrate historic herring run in Woburn By PATRICK BLAIS Nov 25, 2022 Area environmentalists can’t wait to install a new fish ladder by Woburn’s Scalley Dam after a record number of herring splashed their way into Horn Pond and other bodies of water along the Mystic River watershed in 2022. Earlier this month, officialsRead more

Mystic River `22 herring run put at 425,000 plus Count is at 20,000 plus at Horn Pond in Woburn Daily Times Chronicle – Nov 15, 2022 MEDFORD/WOBURN – According to the official estimate from the Division of Marine Fisheries (Mass DMF), more than 425,000 river herring passed through the fish ladder at the Mystic LakesRead more

 Alewives Anonymous 2022 Herring Counts on October 31, 2022 The Wanderer The results of the 2022 alewives (river herring) migration as recorded by an electronic fish counter on the Mattapoisett River at Snipatuit Pond have been completed. This year’s count of herring in the Mattapoisett River was 2,332, an increase of 446 over the 2021Read more

Construction work to begin for Herring River restoration, Wellfleet project decades in the making CAI | By Jennette Barnes Published October 21, 2022 at 2:14 PM EDT Clearing of vegetation along the Herring River in Wellfleet is set to begin by November as part of a restoration project to bring more salt water into theRead more

October 18, 2022 | Elaina Hancock – UConn Communications The Travails of an Alewife: Dams, Drought, and Climate Change UConn researchers are studying the alewife – a threatened species and vital food web component — for clues on how CT waterways and their inhabitants will adapt to climate change A woman in chest waders standsRead more

Herring River restoration project gets a hefty $22.67M boost from state Heather McCarron Cape Cod Times WELLFLEET — More than a century ago, a dike was built across the mouth of the Herring River at Chequessett Neck, blocking it from freely emptying out into Wellfleet Harbor and hampering the inward flow of salt water withRead more

Fish and other aquatic animals are paying the price of drought in Massachusetts By Katie Mogg Globe Correspondent,Updated September 15, 2022, 4:21 p.m. The Boston Globe Boston and much of the Bay State was finally greeted with rain in recent days. But don’t be fooled, we’re still in a drought. Little precipitation coupled with steamy temperaturesRead more

Fish Harvesting Could Return at Harwich’s Herring River August 31, 2022 River herring photo courtesy of Gerry Beetham HARWICH – Harwich officials have approved a Sustainable Fishery Management plan for fish harvesting at Herring River. River herring harvest was banned in Harwich in 2004 out of concern for dwindling fish populations, with Massachusetts following suitRead more

Many dams in Massachusetts are hazards. But demolishing them is no small feat March 01, 2022 Walter Wuthmann A massive yellow Cat excavator pounded away at a 200-year-old dam in Norwood on a recent morning. “The sound of the hydraulic hammer, to me, is one of the best sounds in the world,” said Beth Lambert,Read more

’21 Mystic herring numbers jump out the water My Arlington Created: 15 February 2022 | Last Updated: 15 February 2022 | Written by Mystic River Watershed Association The numbers are in: An estimated 550,000 river herring passed through the fish ladder at Mystic Lakes Dam in 2021. This estimate comes from data collected through hundredsRead more