Sentences with phrase «blueback herring»

Ultimately, NMFS determined that listing under the Endangered Species Act was not warranted for either alewife or blueback herring.

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.

Historically, blueback herring ranged from Nova Scotia south to the St. John's River in Florida, and alewife ranged from Labrador to South Carolina.

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).

In other work, Limburg found that eels and blueback herring in the Hudson River, too, have all sorts of travel patterns.

For more than 10,000 years, migrating fishes — Atlantic, chinook, and coho salmon, American shad, blueback herring, and striped bass, to name a few — have returned in astonishing abundance to the great rivers up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.