"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."
Thousands of small, often obsolete dams are blocking fish migrations across the United States. In this piece, Ben Goldfarb explores the growing movement to remove these barriers—despite political, economic, and emotional obstacles. He asks, “Can government agencies and conservation groups pick up the pace of dam removal while fish are still around to benefit?”
The Eastern Seaboard’s most enthusiastic purger of dams has long been Plymouth, Massachusetts, and one weekend I visited during its Herring Festival, a celebration of the resurgent alewife population that annually runs up Town Brook, the stream at Plymouth’s heart. The day was cool and damp, and I followed a posse of dads in Red Sox sweatshirts and kids in rainboots up the path that paralleled the creek. Someone had chalked “LOOK FISH” on the asphalt, and I glanced streamward to find alewives holding in small pods, weaving around each other in their effortless way.
Steve Rose | The Guardian | September 24, 2026 | 5,576 words
“Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout—and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried.”
Lars Horn, Sabrina Imbler, Lulu Miller, and Joseph Osmundson | Orion | May 27, 2026 | 4,189 words
“A conversation about finding community in the aquatic.”
James Bridle | Emergence Magazine | January 30, 2025 | 4,136 words
“Coming face to face with lionfish in the warming waters of the Aegean Sea, James Bridle traces the unfolding of geology, evolution, and empire that not only occasions this meeting, but binds us in relationship with this ‘invasive’ species.”
Lauren Silverman | Human Parts | May 11, 2022 | 4,355 words
Lauren Silverman weaves together issues surrounding relationships, immigration … and rainbow trout. It is a beautifully written, and highly personal, essay. Here’s a fish that is born with multiple destinies. It can choose to stay in its native river forever, or swim hundreds of miles into the deep blue — and it makes this life-altering choice…
Matt Crossman | Experience | June 30, 2021 | 2,610 words
“Scientists use DNA to solve genetic puzzles in waters around the world. But in Crane Creek, the mystery got deeper.”
Paul Greenberg | Hakai Magazine | July 24, 2018 | 3,094 words
The history of colatura — a fermented anchovy-based sauce produced in Italy — goes back millennia. Now, overfishing and rapidly warming waters threaten its future.
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| 1 | Deadly parasite lurks and kills hundreds of salmon in Pacific Northwest rivers | -2 | 6 | 24-06-2026 |
| 2 | Dozens of California dams need repair as El Niño winter draws closer | 0 | 14.42 | 14-10-2026 |
| 3 | MAP: 35 lakes across Texas are now infested with zebra mussels | 0 | 8.89 | 24-07-2026 |
| 4 | Названа новая проблема из-за технологического сбора | -1 | 26.67 | 14-10-2026 |
| 5 | A reservoir of last resort is running dry in Wyoming | 0 | 9.11 | 06-09-2026 |
| 6 | TWRA Fisheries Installs 500 Fish Habitat Structures In Chickamauga Reservoir | 0 | 20 | 14-10-2026 |
| 7 | Measured in decades: The enduring human cost of anti-personnel mines and other explosive ordnance | 0 | 17.14 | 01-04-2026 |
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