RIVER HERRING IN THE NEWS

River Herring Bycatch in the Atlantic Herring Fishery will be discussed at the next New England Fishery Management Council meeting on September 26, 2012 in Plymouth On Wednesday, September 26 at 10:45AM in Plymouth the New England Fishery Management Council will be discussing the issue of river herring bycatch in the Atlantic Herring Fishery. TheRead more

River Herring Network – Late Summer Workshop Thursday September 13, 2012 5:30-7:30PM Bourne Veteran’s Memorial Community Center – 239 Main St. Buzzards Bay AGENDA 5:30PM Welcome, Introductions, and Updates 5:45PM How to Create a River Herring Sustainable Fishery Plan Brad Chase, MA Division of Marine Fisheries will explain the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s 2009Read more

After Labor Day and the mass exodus of people from Cape Cod, the juvenile river herring, also known as fry start their downstream journey from the ponds they have called home for the past 2 or 3 months to salt marsh embayments and then eventually to the open ocean. As Wellfleet’s Herring Warden, I startRead more

On June 12 the River Herring Network held its first evening workshop from 5:30-7:00PM at the Bourne Veterans Memorial Community Center in Buzzards Bay. The intent was to find a time when volunteer wardens who are employed in other fields could attend after their 9-5 workday. Fourteen wardens attended representing eight different towns, along with severalRead more

We’ve all heard people say: “There’s plenty of other fish in the sea”, but while it may apply to the dating pool, we’ve found that it doesn’t tend to apply to actual fish. Take river herring, the fish whose lifestyle carries them between our rivers and the ocean each year. Less than one percent ofRead more

The River Herring Network invites herring wardens, herring counters, and herring enthusiasts to an evening workshop on Tuesday, June 12, 5:30-7pm  at the Bourne Veteran’s Memorial Community Center on 239 Main St in Buzzards Bay. The workshop will begin with Brad Chase from the Division of Marine Fisheries speaking on the state laws that governRead more

The annual herring migration is a natural wonder. For centuries, people have watched in awe as hundreds of thousands of herring journeyed from the ocean upstream to spawn in freshwater ponds, drawn by some unseen force of nature. Today the once plentiful river herring are being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. TheRead more

Throughout Massachusetts nearly every coastal town has at least one river or stream that is, or has been a river herring run. Alewife and blueback herring (River Herring) have always been an important food source  for humans on the Atlantic coast  but this once abundant fish stock is now in severe decline coast wide. One indicatorRead more

On Monday, March 19 I attended the New England Marine Fisheries Management Council hearing on Amendment 5 in Fairhaven. I hitched a ride with the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association. About 100-120 people attended. Two members of the Atlantic herring fleet spoke and maintained that they had a “clean” fishery and that they wereRead more

After years of wondering and worrying about river herring being caught as bycatch in the Atlantic herring fishery, we finally have the opportunity to DO something about it. Due in large part to the efforts of watershed associations, recreational fishermen, herring wardens, environmental organizations, and river herring enthusiasts, the New England Marine Fisheries Management CouncilRead more