Originally Posted By: EnCon Police


In 1985, over 630,000 blueback herring were passed over a single dam

By 2006, only 21 passed the Holyoke Dam wtf

Last year that number had risen only to 39. cry2

DEP biologists believe predation by increasingly abundant striped bass and undocumented catch in the ocean may be important factors.



Capt. I know that it is just a press release and you did not write it, but I am disappointed to see reference to increasingly abundant striped bass still listed as a possible cause factor. That text is left over from several years ago and it was wrong back than. While it is good that ocean harvest & by-catch is finally included this yearly announcement, it is hard for me to believe the fisheries folks at DEP endorse the Striped Bass text as written.

To even imply the that Striped Bass has driven the measured population down by 99.99% (actually closer to 100%) seems to fly in the face of food chain science.

I totally understand and support the closure to attempt to save the breading stock but it infuriates me that a modest recreational harvest needs to be shut off - so the herring can be sucked up by the billions in the Gulf of Maine. THAT IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS.
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