These fish are critical to New England, and they're disappearing

Thank you to Bob Oakes and Walter Wuthman of WBUR for such an important, sensitive piece on the decline of migratory fish like American eel, blueback herring, alewives, and shad due to impacts of climate change and defunct dams in Massachusetts.

"A dam in a river is like a blocked artery; it's like a heart attack," said Robert Kearns, a climate resiliency specialist at the Charles River Watershed Association. "It degrades the water quality behind it; reduces the dissolved oxygen which fish rely on to breathe and to live ... and creates a habitat that's better for invasive species."

Read more about our efforts to restore fish passage in A River Interrupted.