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Recent efforts from the NEFMC resulted in recommendations to directly account for sea herring’s role as a food source in the ecosystem. [...]
Anadromous and catadromous fish migrate to their spawning grounds to reproduce. Often they're blocked by human-made barriers. [...]
Removing an obsolete dam revitalized a major river, a state economy and holds the key to using the river for the right reason at the right time [...]
Blueback herring are a vital link in the East Coast’s ocean and coastal food web because they are a food source for striped bass, marine mammals and sea birds. [...]
Hit up your state’s Council members right now. Let them know you want river herring and shad added as a stock in the Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish FMP. [...]
Baitfish sustain our game fish and prey birds. Without healthy stocks of these forage fish we'd encounter diminished stocks of all game fish. [...]
Salmon numbers increased as the number of hydroelectric dams decreased. Main-stem river dams had more impact than dams on tributaries. [...]
Roughly six million pounds of hatchery fish excrement, uneaten food and dead and decaying fish leach nutrients into wastewater -- then get dumped into a stream or river [...]
Of all the ecosystems studied, 75% had at least one key predator species whose diet consisted of at least 50% or more of forage fish. 29% of the ecosystems studied had at least one major predator with a diet of [...]
Every year the trawlers catch many other species known as bycatch, including millions of severely depleted shad and river herring. [...]
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