We are neck-deep in the fight to protect herring, a crucial way to allow the ocean to do what it does so amazingly well: support life with beautiful diversity.
Because a federal judge overturned regulations that would have kept large trawlers off our coast, we have mustered for yet another lengthy public hearing process to make that ocean herring get a fighting chance to return to health. At the same time, with the same advocacy, we can protect river herring that want to come up our freshwater runs every spring, an ancient right of passage many of our towns have worked hard and invested public funds to encourage.