Folks over at The Bronx River Alliance have announced that the for the first time EVER water was released into NYC’s first fish ladder which of course is in The Bronx River! Starting next year in 2015 for the first time in hundreds of years, alewife herring will be able to migrate and return to their freshwater spawning grounds!
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