April 20, 2009

Is Mankind Finally Getting it Right?

Herring make slow recovery

South Coast Today

While it's still too early in the season to tell, [ fisheries biologist] John Sheppard was studying the first of what state and New Bedford officials hope will be many more herring using the river to reach their spawning grounds in the New Bedford Reservoir.
In 2007, New Bedford celebrated the completion of a $1.4 million project officials hoped would shepherd more than 100,000 river herring past three dams on the Acushnet River to the reservoir.


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