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Nemasket River herring : a history
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ISBN: 1625851936 Year: 2014 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Natural History Press

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"A history of how herring shaped the culture and society of towns along the Nemasket River in Massachusetts"-- "Every spring, the Nemasket River welcomes thousands of migratory river herring that thrash and leap as they fight their way upstream from Mount Hope Bay. Of all non-domesticated animals, the river herring--or alewife--has arguably had the greatest impact on the towns along the river in southeastern Massachusetts. The area was called Nemasket, or 'place of fish,' by Native Americans, and its earliest English colonists were dependent on river herring for their very survival. They provided a livelihood for generations of families in Middleborough and Lakeville, shaping their culture and the course of the region's development. Today, herring fishing is banned, and the community is working toward protecting and preserving the river so the herring have a place to return each year. Join historian Michael J. Maddigan as he explores the big story of the small fish that shaped life along the Nemasket River"--


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The Alewives' Tale : The Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the Northeast
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ISBN: 1613763352 9781613763353 9781625341051 9781625341044 1625341040 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amherst : Baltimore, Md. : University of Massachusetts Press, Project MUSE,

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