Back to Schools: Restoring fish populations to the Pawtuxet River

For 200 years or longer, dams have blocked a number of important species of anadromous fish from completing their lifecycle.
Alewife, blueback herring, and American shad are just a few of the anadromous species that live their adult life in saltwater but return to freshwater to spawn and whose populations had virtually disappeared from the Pawtuxet River watershed following the Industrial Revolution. Continue reading