Wriggling through this transfer tube are 400
alewife herring.
So says Natalie Jeremijenko, a professor of art and computer science at New York University, who has set up an installation in the Bronx River which invites passersby to check in with the area's «urban nonhumans» — like
the alewife herring, blue crabs, and beaver which frequent that stretch of the river.
Bringing back a critical link in the River's Ecosystem Welcoming 400
alewife herring to the Bronx River!
Once so abundance along the eastern seaboard that our rivers once «ran silver» in the spring,
alewife herring populations have crashed, largely due to dams that obstruct their -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Ruins would echo the love song of frogs breeding in streams stocked with
alewives,
herring, and mussels dropped by seagulls.
Palkovacs and his coauthors identified three distinct stocks in
alewife (Northern New England, Southern New England, and Mid-Atlantic) and four stocks in blueback
herring (Northern New England, Southern New England, Mid-Atlantic, and South Atlantic).
Historically, blueback
herring ranged from Nova Scotia south to the St. John's River in Florida, and
alewife ranged from Labrador to South Carolina.
River
herring include two related species,
alewife and blueback
herring, which migrate between freshwater spawning grounds and the ocean, where they spend most of their lives.
Ultimately, NMFS determined that listing under the Endangered Species Act was not warranted for either
alewife or blueback
herring.