{"id":158,"date":"2024-07-16T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/?p=158"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:40:08","slug":"record-numbers-of-river-herring-in-maine-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/news\/record-numbers-of-river-herring-in-maine-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Numbers of River Herring in Maine Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alewives and blueback herring, both under the category of river herring, have been observed in record numbers in Maine\u2019s waterways this year. Scientists are attributing this phenomenon to the increase in habitat restoration and dam removal, saying that this supports the success of fish passage projects.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Maine Public article \u201cWith new efforts to improve fish passage, Maine is seeing a record number of river herring in 2024\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/environment-and-outdoors\/2024-07-05\/with-new-efforts-to-improve-fish-passage-maine-is-seeing-a-record-number-of-river-herring-in-2024\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/659\/2024\/07\/alwive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/659\/2024\/07\/alwive.png\" alt=\" The alewife herring.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\n\" width=\"960\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/659\/2024\/07\/alwive.png 960w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/659\/2024\/07\/alwive-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/659\/2024\/07\/alwive-768x458.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The alewife herring.<br \/>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alewives and blueback herring, both under the category of river herring, have been observed in record numbers in Maine&rsquo;s waterways this year. Scientists are attributing this phenomenon to the increase&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}