Massachusetts river herring populations rebound, good bycatch news for New England herring fleet
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [New Bedford Standard Times] by Ariel Witenberg - Aug 20, 2014
ACUSHNET — Things are looking up for Buzzards Bay's herring population. Way up, in fact.
This summer more than 10,000 herring swam up the Acushnet River, a 68 percent increase from the previous year. In the Mattapoisett River, the gains have been even greater with a 156 percent increase in river herring. On the Agawam River in Wareham, river herring numbers have more than doubled since 2011 with 49,000 fish swimming up the river in 2014.
These increases are just the latest, largest spikes in a more steady increase in river herring that has been occurring in Massachusetts river herring populations since 2011.
"This is great news all around," said Paul Diodati of the Division of Marine Fisheries....
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