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
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:18pm
Herring headed back out to sea?
Menhaden
By SamWack
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:38pm
(Pogies) are not anadromous. Alewives and Blueback Herring are, but they run in the spring.
Pogies
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:20pm
BEWARE OF TOE-SNACKING BLUEFISH!
ROFL!
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 8:12pm
Dammit! I miss 'FNX!
Yesterday (Sunday) morning
By amanda
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:41pm
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
By anon
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 1:17pm
They want a piece of that whale,
https://www.sootoday.com/global-news/video-capture...
It happens every year
By Robert Winters
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 1:19pm
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
By Parkwayne
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 1:43pm
That's one of those jobs that I really wonder how you get. What are the qualifications, etc...?
Proposed solution:
By erik g
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 2:14pm
Salmon cannon
I have some better ideas.
By Great Blue Heron
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 6:16pm
I have some better ideas. Care to discuss them over dinner along with the Cormorants?
Fish in a barrel!
By Lmo
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 8:12pm
Fish in a barrel!
It's true
By erik g
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 8:19pm
that the salmon don't really LIKE the cannon.
Word is, the sample group they tried went ballistic.
Magoo sez
By MisterMagooForYou
Mon, 07/29/2019 - 1:20pm
Something is fishy in Charlestown. Magoo.
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