WESTPORT -- When the herring begin to head up stream to Adamsville Pond this spring they'll be getting a big lift. Thanks to the installation of a new state-of-the-art herring ladder the ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by. There, in the crashing shallows below the Main Street Dam, the gull ...

GREENLAND — If you ever want to know when spring has arrived, just visit the Winnicut River. Mike Dionne, a marine fisheries technician with New Hampshire Fish and Game, visits the river almost every ...

For more than a century, a small dam in Mill Neck has blocked river herring returning from Long Island Sound to reproduce in freshwater wetlands. A fish passage that opened on Aug. 30 allows the ...

Natural beauty is not out of reach even in the most urban of spaces. The Mystic River Watershed is the most populated watershed in Massachusetts, with 7% of the MA population living on 1% of its land.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — For the first time in six years, Bill McWha was a simple bystander these past few weeks as blueback and alewife herring negotiated their way past the Main Street Dam on the ...

PLYMOUTH – Move over herring; American eels are making a seasonal run as the wiggly darlings of local rivers and streams. The slippery fish have been making their way up Town Brook this month in ...