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A tale of herring do: Record number of fish spotted swimming up the Mystic

Herring on the move. Photo by MyRWA.

The Mystic River Watershed Association reports volunteers counted 40% more herring swimming up the river to spawn at the Mystic Lakes this year than last year.

The 630,000 or so anadromous fish counted between April and June is the largest number ever recorded, the association says. A new fish ladder installed in the Aberjona River north of the lakes could let some of the fish reach as far inland as Woburn next year.

The group's executive director, Patrick Herron, said:

This has been an exciting year for herring! We are thrilled that the herring count has increased, and glad our volunteer monitoring program and our new underwater video monitoring program are engaging more people in the community – including local students – in the amazing river herring migration that this urban river supports. We will continue to partner with agencies and municipalities to improve water quality and habitat in the Mystic River watershed.

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It's encouraging. Nice to know that our rivers are being cleaned up and don't exist as toilets.

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Interesting, I heard recently that Atlantic river herring are at historically low numbers in the eastern US.

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it may be one of the reason's that cod isn't recovering despite fishing limits.

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Once herring started recovering in the rivers, the fisheries experts decided that was a good reason to let trawlers start killing them all again.

Nice, eh? Hey, gee, thanks and NOW EFF YOU AND SHUTUP!

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/analysis/2015/02/11/re...

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So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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Herring today, gone tomorrow.

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You should be arrested for that pun! Put in jail, dragged before a judge and then... given a fair herring.

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What should we do with a herring's eyes?

Of all the fish that live in the sea, the herring is the one for me!

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