The river herring has played an enormous role in the lives of New Englanders for centuries, but these fish face an uncertain future. An alewife, one of two types of river herring found throughout New ...

When I was a small fry, vacationing at the Youth Hostel on Martha’s Vineyard, my family spent an afternoon paddling up Herring Run Creek. When we reached shallow water and got out to push, we noticed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by.

Building on last year’s first-ever successful stocking of river herring in the Bronx River, an estimated 400 additional fish were released today in an ongoing effort to establish a breeding population ...

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 ...

The Pacific herring—an oily, silvery, schooling fish—is rarely high on the list of marine animals people fret about. But for the second straight year, the Canadian government has ignited a skirmish in ...

Efforts to decolonize the herring roe harvest in Alaska highlight the contrast between tribal subsistence practices and the Department of Fish and Game’s management strategy. Once, you could plunge a ...

Submerged waist-deep in the Acushnet River, Marcus Hendricks let out a howl that echoed through the forest and brush. The ...