Little River World Fish Migration Day Event

Come be a citizen scientist, celebrate World Fish Migration Day, and meet the Gloucester Shellfish warden and staff from NOAA Fisheries and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. We’ll tour the nature like fishway, train new fish counters, and talk about the newly installed fishway donated by MDMF and installed by Sumco in 2017.

Lily Pond and the Little River host a small, but resilient population of alewife. These fish migrate from the ocean to the Lily Pond, spawn, and then return to the sea. The young fish head downstream in late summer. This is one of the few runs remaining on the North Shore, but we’d like to know more about when and how many fish travel upstream every year. River herring provide important forage for cod, bluefish, tuna and striped bass, all important fish for the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Organizers: NOAA Fisheries and City of Gloucester

Contacts: Tara Trinko Lake (NOAA Fisheries) tara.trinko@noaa.gov, (978) 282-8477; Tammy Cominelli (City of Gloucester) tcominelli@gloucester-ma.gov, (978) 559-9435