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Dan Dick
via the COLAP January 2003 Newsletter
Alewife
Restoration
- The SuAsCo Watershed Team has been involved in the Restoration
of Alewife to the SuAsCo Watershed since 1999, in cooperation with
the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust,
MA Fish & Wildlife, and many others. The Middleborough/ Lakeville
Herring Fisheries Commission has supplied the Alewife from their
facility on the Nemasket River in Middleborough, MA. Over 20,000
Alewife have been introduced to the Concord and Sudbury Rivers.
The Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust has received funding from a
variety of sources (including: MA Environmental Trust, Riverways)
to help train volunteer to assist with the monitoring of both
adult and juvenile alewife on the Concord River. Kristin A.
McCauley (LP&CT) spearheaded this effort. The Division of
Fisheries and Wildlife discovered adult Alewife from that years
introduction in Heard’s Pond in Wayland. Heard’s Pond is flooded
by the Sudbury River in high spring flows. Additional information
can be found at:
http://www.lowelllandtrust.org/Alewife_restoration.html
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