FISH EYE View of Dams


CCA New Hampshire pitches in to get obsolete dams out. By Cheri Patterson


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ANY ANGLERS may know where striped bass come from, but never stop to think where the alewife or


American eel that so many of us use for bait come from. The anadromous species, such as alewife, blueback her- ring (collectively called river herring), smelt, and shad live in the ocean, but need freshwater to spawn. Conversely,


There are more than 75,000 dams recorded with the National Inventory of Dams, and only a minority have effective fish passage systems. www.joincca.org


the American eel (catadromous) needs to spawn in the ocean; the young then ride ocean currents to coastal areas, where they either stay in estuaries or freshwater habitat for up to 40 years. These species are forage for just about everything bigger than they are. During their life cycle, they become fodder for freshwater species such as bass and pickerel. In the estuary and in the ocean, they are food for migrating


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