Checking today on DEEP site as of March 6, 2015, http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2696&q=544692&deepNav_GID=1630 this document shows the change of opening day to the second Saturday in April and the continuing no open season on alewives. That would seem to indicate the moratorium remains in effect. Also last year while 370,506 shad went over the Holyoke Dam, only 647 blueback herring made it, indicating a continuing near collapse of the Connecticut River herring/alewife population. The Farmington River alewife population is showing signs of recovery in that I personally caught and released more alewives while shad fishing in the Farmington in 2014 than passed over the Holyoke Dam.