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« Traffic Alert: Stay clear of Route 195 | Today | R.I. Guard unit returns today » June 2, 2008New ladder should boost herring in WoonasquatucketEver seen a fish climb a ladder? If not, today’s your lucky day. OK, so it’s not that kind of ladder, but today there is a fish ladder opening in the Woonasquatucket River. The ladder restores a path for migratory river fish to move freely between the Narragansett Bay and the Woonasquatucket. Damming of the river, for the use of textile mills, had kept the fish from their traditional spawning paths for more than 140 years. “Seven generations ago our ancestors started a path that prevented the fish from going up the river,” said Roylene Rides at the Door, a state conservationist for the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service. The project to restore the fish ladder was sponsored by the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council and by the developers and owners of the Rising Sun Mills complex: Struever Brothers Eccles and Rouse, Inc. and the Armory Revival Company. The $465,000 project is expected to increase the number of river herring supported in the river to 40,000. It was funded by public and private sources, including NRCS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Coastal Resource Management Council and the RI Saltwater Anglers Association. U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse will join USDA Deputy Undersecretary Conservation Gary Mast and local residents to officially open the ladder behind the Rising Sun Mills at 10:00 a.m. today. Posted by Brandie Jefferson CommentsBill Anderson | June 3, 2008 12:23 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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