In a surprising discovery, researchers from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University found a substantial number of anadromous Blueback Herring in New Jersey’s Cooper River. The fish, which ...

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 ...

As spring winds down, so concludes the migration of two species of fish that travel from the ocean to spawn in freshwater. While once abundant in rivers and streams, alewives and blueback herring have ...

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 ...

In the grand scheme of things — with a climate crisis that causes record-setting heat waves, wildfires, floods and drought — does the migratory progress of the blueback herring in the Patapsco River ...

On March 31, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied an appeal filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other conservation groups seeking to overturn a National ...

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 ...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:13:51 GMT — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is looking for fish counters. The agency needs volunteers for its annual herring monitoring program for the Hudson ...