There was a time when the Connecticut River and all the state’s rivers that flow into the Long Island Sound teemed with migratory fish, including salmon, shad, striped bass, sturgeon, and river ...

There was a time when the Housatonic River and all the state’s rivers that flow into the Long Island Sound teemed with migratory fish, including salmon, shad, striped bass, sturgeon, and river herring ...

A genetic and demographic analysis of river herring populations along the U.S. east coast has identified distinct genetic stocks, providing crucial guidance for efforts to manage their declining ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by.

River herring are absent from the Blackstone River due to dams and past pollution. A plan exists to allow fish passage around the first four dams on the lower Blackstone River to Lonsdale Marsh.

The Potomac’s Herring Are Hurting. Virginia’s Game Wardens Protect Them. Every spring, armed officers play hide-and-seek with poachers under Chain Bridge to protect the river’s most imperiled fish. Is ...

Atlantic herring numbers are down, way down. According to NOAA Fisheries, the stock is overfished. Overall commercial landings totaled 9.3 million pounds in 2022. By comparison, in 2013, commercial ...

A comparison of the fast-growing fish-eating Baltic herring (Slåttersill in Swedish) and slow-growing plankton-eating spring- and autumn-spawning Baltic herring. Photo: Leif Andersson. Atlantic and ...

For the first time in decades, it might soon be legal to harvest a limited number of herring from the town’s major herring run.