It's all about greed," he said, because many poachers sell the fish as bait. "It's extremely common, to the point where up in Batsto, the game warden basically stays there." But those who sell the ...

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 ...

ESOPUS, N.Y. — In recent weeks, environmental conservation officers conducted “fishing compliance checks” statewide and encountered numerous subjects, some with “creative hiding places and interesting ...

This trail has 0.4-mile stretch of former railroad bed that leads into the saltmarsh surrounding First Herring Brook and the Herring River. It has a small parking area at 32 New Driftway in Scituate.

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — Each spring, river herring make their way upstream from the ocean to the freshwater locations where their lives began, a journey that unfolds beneath the streets of Wakefield and ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Commercial fishing for river herring is now a possibility on some Bangor area waters. Towns near Chemo Pond and Pushaw Lake will have a chance to submit a petition to the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a five-part Eagle-Tribune series on Merrimack River fish -- the species, life cycles, and habits -- along with the challenges they face and the wonder they evoke.

Smithsonian biologists are on a mission to bring back the imperiled river herring. River herring were once one of the most abundant fish in the Chesapeake. But in the 1970s, their numbers plummeted.