These fish once fed George Washington’s troops. Now, American shad levels are ‘not sustainable’ in the Delaware River.

The once-abundant American shad, along with river herring, have plummeted to levels considered depleted, according to new ...
Yahoo

How are RI's fish ladders working? Scientists await word from the river herring.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by. There, in the crashing shallows below the Main Street Dam, the gull ...

Floridians win when forage fish are protected | Opinion

The CEO of the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust joins other fishing groups to encourage President Trump to protect American waters ...
The Nation

This Tiny Fish Holds Together Ecosystems and Cultures—It’s Also Under Threat

Net positive? Paul Salomone, a fisheries management biologist, samples herring to help determine whether the fishery should be opened for the day. (Nathaniel Wilder) On a drizzly March afternoon in ...
Good News Network

4 Dams Set for Removal in Maine Will Open Hundreds of Miles of River for Salmon, Herring and Sturgeon

Salmon, herring, the federally-protected Atlantic sturgeon, and American eel, all rely on Maine’s freshwater rivers to either ...
Newsday

A little fish at the Supreme Court could take a big bite out of regulatory power

WASHINGTON — Business and conservative interest groups that want to limit the power of federal regulators think they have a winner in the Atlantic herring and the boats that sweep the modest fish into ...
The Patriot Ledger

Pembroke's annual herring run on stream to set record as fish count soars in recent years

PEMBROKE – On a Wednesday morning, Samantha Dempsey and her three children arrived at the Pembroke Historical Herring Run Park by 9 a.m. for their sixth visit this spring. Mikey, 5, ran ahead of his ...
The Providence Journal

One fish, two fish: One RI man's mission to count herring and make a difference

WARWICK – From where Paul Earnshaw is standing, shin-deep in turbid water, Buckeye Brook isn’t much to look at. Shallow and silty, it resembles a drainage trough as it emerges from under four lanes of ...
PBS

Red Herring - Say What?!

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