Environmental

Groups Go To Court to Protect Blueback Herring from Extinction

Challenge flawed decision not to list imperiled river herring as a “threatened species”

Blueback herring.

Blueback herring are now reduced to tiny remnant runs, due primarily to the impacts of dams and habitat destruction, overfishing, and water pollution. The commercial fishery has collapsed and a critical food source has gone missing from the ecosystem.  Photo courtesy of Henry Zbyszynski

 Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2015.  Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of fishing and…

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