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Bronx River's Cleanup Brings Herring Home

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Called an "open sewer" in the recent past, the Bronx River is now clean enough for a type of herring to once again be introduced and to make runs to the ocean.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.3

There's the first of the Elwives. All silvery, they're all about the same size.

0:46.3

You can't tell the boys from the girls. These will be the first.

0:50.3

Stephen Gephard, fisheries biologist with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental

0:56.2

Protection.

0:58.2

Gephart brought 400 alewives down from the Nutmeg State to be released into the Bronx River

1:03.6

on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo on April 20th.

1:06.8

The Bronx River was once so polluted that it was called an open sewer, but it's been cleaned up to the point where it can now once again support these fish,

1:14.7

which were common here in the 19th century.

1:17.3

Elwives are herring. They're kind of like a miniature shad.

1:20.3

John Waldman is an aquatic conservation biologist at Queens College, who was on hand for the release.

1:26.4

They're born in freshwater.

1:30.5

They rear for the first year in fresh water, then go to sea,

1:32.3

spend a few years growing larger,

1:34.3

and then return to the river they were born in,

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