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 ...

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 ...

I get most of my news from my evening trips to the Wellfleet Marketplace, where loopy conversations are just as nutritious as the vittles I procure. That's where I heard that a bunch of acreage along ...

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 ...

The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its 2025 river herring run results, showing that most monitored runs across the region experienced below-average returns this past spring—underscoring ...

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.