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Scientist counts alewife to help restore its habitat
On a recent morning in Shirley, fisheries scientist Brian Kelder dropped a thermometer into the Carmans River from the Montauk Highway bridge and peered at the water below. His quarry: schools of silvery, foot-long herring known as alewives that arrive in Long Island waters from late March to early June after a perilous journey from the open Atlantic. Like salmon, alewives are anadromous fish. They...
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