All of Connecticut's Spawning River Herring Seem to be in the Mianus River

Now that spring spawning season is here for anadromous fish (or diadromous, as they seem to be called now), two things are incredible:

1. there are so few river herring left in Connecticut that it is illegal to fish for them.

2 the Mianus River continues to get thousands of spawning river herring -- 33,000 last year (click here and scroll almost all the way down).