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Click on the common name of each fish for species-specific
information about habitat requirements, life history, and
current distribution within the Assabet watershed. (Species
present as of 2001.)
Extirpated Clupiedae species:
These two species of the herring family once lived in the
Assabet River and tributary streams, but disappeared because
of dams. Currently U.S.
Fish and Wildlife, with Mass Riverways, Lowell
Parks and Conservation Trust, and other volunteer groups,
is working on an anadromous fish restoration program on the
Merrimack and Concord Rivers. In the spring of 2004 appx.
4,500 alewife and 400 American shad were transferred into
the Sudbury and Concord Rivers. Providing fish passage for
these fish may allow them to make a come-back on the Assabet
River as well.
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