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 ...

River herring are absent from the Blackstone River due to dams and past pollution. A plan exists to allow fish passage around the first four dams on the lower Blackstone River to Lonsdale Marsh.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively working with state and local partners to restore river herring to historical populations in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Agency employees, who started ...

PEMBROKE – On a Wednesday morning, Samantha Dempsey and her three children arrived at the Pembroke Historical Herring Run Park by 9 a.m. for their sixth visit this spring. Mikey, 5, ran ahead of his ...

Despite repeated calls from First Nations for a moratorium, Fisheries and Oceans Canada approved more than 2,000 tons of ...

The Department of Marine Resource has closed several fishing areas along the Maine coast to protect the spawning stock of herring. The closure went into effect on Sept. 24 and extends through Oct. 21.

PORTLAND, Maine (CBS/AP) — The East Coast herring fishing industry will be almost completely shut down for the rest of the year. Herring fishing is a major marine industry in New England, but the ...