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Spring is just around the corner and the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) is once again seeking volunteers to count river herring. River herring include alewife (<i style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Alosa
pseudoharengus</i>) and blueback herring (<i style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A. aestivalis</i>), both listed as Species of Special Concern
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. River herring are important in the coastal food web and coastal ecosystem, but despite a moratorium that began in 2006 banning their catch, sale and possession, their populations remain perilously low.
Count data are urgently needed to document their presence.<o:p style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Volunteer herring counts provide valuable scientific data on herring populations and are used by fisheries managers to manage and protect herring stocks. Herring counts also help to
document the need for restoration or improvement of fish runs and the success of restoration projects. Cape Cod has many runs that provide opportunities for volunteers to view the spring herring migration while collecting valuable scientific data.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">This year volunteers are needed to count herring along the following runs:
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Stony Brook, Brewster<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Bound Brook and Scargo Lake, Dennis<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Bridge Pond and Herring Pond, Eastham<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Trunk River, Falmouth<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Mashpee River, Quashnet River and Santuit Pond, Mashpee<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Mill Creek, Sandwich<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Volunteers are needed to count several times a week between April 1 and June 1. Counts are done for 10 minutes. Volunteers must be able to safely traverse rough terrain, be able to visually
see fish in the stream, and provide their own transportation to the counting site. The counts are reported to APCC via our website data entry system.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Individuals interested in counting herring at any of these runs, or at other
runs which will need volunteer counters, can sign up to count herring at APCC’s website at
</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://apcc.org/our-work/science/community-science/monitoring-program-volunteers/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Herring
count volunteer signup</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#201F1E">.
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">To learn more about APCC’s herring count program, instructions for counting,
past run sizes, counts at other runs, a schedule of training events, and our website data entry system, visit APCC’s website at
</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://apcc.org/our-work/science/community-science/herring/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">APCC
Herring Monitoring Program</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"> . If you have questions, please
contact Dr. Jo Ann Muramoto, APCC’s Director of Science Programs, at </span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="mailto:jmuramoto@apcc.org"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">jmuramoto@apcc.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Photo of herring at Stony Brook run by L. Keeran.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Jo Ann Muramoto, Ph.D.</div>
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MassBays Regional Coordinator, Cape Cod region</div>
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Association to Preserve Cape Cod</div>
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jmuramoto@apcc.org</div>
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