Hopeful signs for river herring
Not so very long ago, the numbers were bleak. The 2022 spring fish run in Connecticut was down about 350,000 alewife. Blueback herring fared even worse—only 570 bluebacks were counted by state-monitored runs, a decrease of 99.9 percent from 1985. Both species of river herring are critical to the food web, in Connecticut’s rivers and […]