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Experiments to determine the ideal depths, widths, and aspects of fishway entrance designs for River Herring and American Shad

Dates

Start Date
2022-10-01
End Date
2025-09-30

Summary

Alewife and Blueback Herring, collectively known as River Herring, are diadromous species that range along the East Coast from Maine to Florida. River Herring constitute one of the oldest fisheries in North America, but have experienced dramatic declines due to the combined pressures of climate change, bycatch, habitat loss, dams, and other stream barriers. Since 2009, River Herring have been managed under the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) fisheries management plan and ASMFC’s 2017 stock assessment update indicates that River Herring remain at near historic lows on a coastwide basis. In its 2021 “At-Risk Species, Summary Report”, the USFWS Northeast Region identified River Herring as priority species indicating [...]

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Contacts

Principal Investigator :
Kevin B Mulligan
FWS Project Officer :
Ken Sprankle

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Communities

  • SSP/QR FWSR5
  • USGS/FWS Science Support Partnership Program

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