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Something fishy going on at the Charles River dam
By adamg on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 11:59am
![A lot of fish in the Charles River](https://www.universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2019/lottafish.jpg?itok=46KVEHp9)
UPDATE: The fish are dying now.
Theodore Hook spotted a ton of swirling pogies at the Charlestown locks this morning.
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Anadramous
Herring headed back out to sea?
Menhaden
(Pogies) are not anadromous. Alewives and Blueback Herring are, but they run in the spring.
Pogies
BEWARE OF TOE-SNACKING BLUEFISH!
ROFL!
Dammit! I miss 'FNX!
Yesterday (Sunday) morning
Yesterday (Sunday) morning just before sunrise they were jumping out of the water at the same location. Every other second a new one would flop out of the water and then disappear. Very cool to see.
They want a piece of that
They want a piece of that whale,
https://www.sootoday.com/global-news/video-captures-moment-whale-jumps-o...
It happens every year
I believe the fish usually come upstream to spawn between Mother's Day and Father's Day (appropriately), so I would have thought they would all have been locked through by the locktenders by now. Were these fish heading back out to the sea?
The fish ladders at the Charles River Dam have been a death trap for decades. Credit goes to the locktenders for locking through the fish even when there are no boats coming in or out. It would be nice if they replaced the fish ladder that actually works, but the locks are OK for now.
Locktender
That's one of those jobs that I really wonder how you get. What are the qualifications, etc...?
Proposed solution:
Salmon cannon
I have some better ideas.
I have some better ideas. Care to discuss them over dinner along with the Cormorants?
Fish in a barrel!
Fish in a barrel!
It's true
that the salmon don't really LIKE the cannon.
Word is, the sample group they tried went ballistic.
Magoo sez
Something is fishy in Charlestown. Magoo.