Originally Posted By: Paul D.
Maybe it was a vodo curse, or Tommy knockers, or global warming, big foot, mountain lion or.....Aliens. Ya just never know.


Originally Posted By: jonh
Originally Posted By: Bone-Head
how much does all the sewerage dumped into the ct. river just over our northern border every time it rains effect all types of fish in the river? i wouldn't want to swim there either.


Not as much as you think. There was a lot more sewage and pollution dumping into the rivers back in the haydays when you "could walk across the herring in the river". Hundreds of millions of dollars have been put into eliminating those discharges - there is more work to do but our environment and our waters are so much cleaner than back in the day.

I believe that commercial fishing efficiencies over time along with the restoration of predators (seals, striped bass, cormorants, eagles, ospreys, etc) are to blame.


IMO the core reason has been the commercial fishing efficiencies - scanning sonar, mid water trawl percision etc. . . .

The crash in dam crossing numbers matches very closely the crash in commercial landings. IMO there were 15 years of unsustainable harvest and we are paying the price now.
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