When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...

A plan to restore fish passage in the Blackstone River still faces obstacles over funding and questions over working with ...

As factories shut down, some of these barriers were razed or bypassed, allowing fish to return to their ancestral spawning grounds in rivers like the Saugatucket in South Kingstown, the Ten Mile ...

But the herring can go no farther than the falls, the dividing line between the fresh waters of the Blackstone River above and the brackish, tidal waters of the Seekonk River below. The path ...

As factories shut down, some of these barriers were razed or bypassed, allowing fish to return to their ancestral spawning grounds in rivers like the Saugatucket in South Kingstown, the Ten Mile ...