A plan to restore fish passage in the Blackstone River still faces obstacles over funding and questions over working with ...

The fish has sparked fiery regulatory battles, including in the Supreme Court case Loper Bright v. Raimondo, leading to the ...

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...

Annual commercial landings of river herring collapsed from 137 million pounds in 1969 to a historic low of 1.4 million pounds in 1997, according to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission ...

Atlantic herring is loaded onto a lobster fishing boat on the shores of the Gulf of Maine on July 1, 2019, in Deer Isle, Maine. Joe Raedle/Getty Images ...

But the herring can go no farther than the falls, the dividing line between the fresh waters of the Blackstone River above and the brackish, tidal waters of the Seekonk River below.. The path ...

Herring is an important part of the food chain, as it is eaten by marine mammals, larger fish and seabirds. Fishing managers have raised concerns about the sustainability of the Atlantic herring ...

Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by ...

Robbins pleaded guilty in March of 2024 to submitting false information to the federal government regarding catch and sale of Atlantic herring and failure to pay taxes, prosecutors said. (AP Photo ...

Herring are unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, Maine, July 8, 2015. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP) Several commercial fishermen in New England have been sentenced in a fraud scheme that centered on ...