Legislative Help for Anadromous Fish in Wallingford

More spawning news: Wallingford has approved construction of a fish ladder at the Wallace Dam on the Quinnipiac River, here.

There are two amazing things about this:

1) for years, the executive director of the Quinnipiac River Watershed Association has been netting fish and lifting them over the dam, so they can continue upstream to spawn (of course spawning is one thing; getting back down to the salt water later is another). They call this a fish rodeo.

And 2) the executive director of the Quinnipiac River Watershed Association is Mary Mushinsky, who also happens to be a member of the Connecticut State Legislature and the assistant majority leader.

That means the state legislature has two professional environmentalists in its ranks. Here's the other. America is a big country and I'm sure Connecticut isn't the only state where this is so. Nevertheless, it's encouraging.