While residents enjoy Michigan's Great Lakes, invasive species may be, too. During Aquatic Invasive Species Awareness Week ...

River herring are absent from the Blackstone River due to dams ... “In our minds, they need to pass from poorly remembered specters to living creatures in need of a fair chance.” ...

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...