Live Fish Found in Bronx River

For the second straight year, an alewife herring was found in the historically polluted Bronx River, signaling that restoration efforts are working. Rep. Jose Serrano told the Daily News, "We have turned a dead river that was unusable for our community into a living river with wildlife." Alewives were reintroduced to the river in 2007, and pass through on their way to spawn from Nova Scotia. Natural Resources Group director Marit Larson said the next step is getting them over the 182nd Street damn to spawn. He said, "NRG and the Bronx River Alliance are continuing...to plan the construction of fish ladders at all three dams in the Bronx. This will open the upper reaches of the river as spawning grounds for even more returning alewife." At press time, it was unclear how many eyes the fish have.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on April 14, 2010 4:20 PM

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Phil

When I was fourteen I gave away all the fish in my aquarium. As I was about to empty the water I saw a guppy still in the tank that probably had been hiding. I could have dumped it down the toilet but instead I put the guppy in a big jar of water which I put in the basement on a shelf. That guppy did not die. The water itself turned cloudy, then full of algae and what seemed like a lot of foul stuff and it smelled. MY parents made even a bigger stink about it. That guppy lived for at least a year and I never fed it. Was that cruel of me? No doubt looking back, but I was 14. Still what does that tell you about fish? They can live in and on any shit. There are fish living off the detritus of that plastic garbage island in the pacific as I write this. . .

Samuel Clay

Really? They killed the only fish that was alive?

Wza

Psht, we got whitefish in Coney Island.

altoid

coney island whitefish = condoms

Wza

Joke killer.

:(

matty

"At press time, it was unclear how many eyes the fish have."

Also I think Mr. Blobby in my avatar was found in the Bronx River. Or was it Newton Creek?

horseplay

This bronx river would be my favorite river in the world, except i havent heard any news of mayor bloomturd's body being found at the bottom of it