Photo Credit: Association to Preserve Cape Cod
The Enterprise
The Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) has released its 2025 river herring run results, which show that most monitored runs across the region experienced below-average returns this past spring—underscoring the continued importance of restoration efforts.
CAI | By Amy Kolb Noyes
Twenty years ago, Massachusetts banned harvesting river herring in an attempt to protect alewife and blueback herring.
Last year the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission released a stock assessment that determined herring populations are stable throughout the coast, including Massachusetts.
