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RI Department of Environmental Management
235 Promenade Street, Providence, RI 02908
(401) 222-2771 TDD/(401) 222-4462
For Release: March 22, 2006
Contact: Gail Mastrati 222-4700 ext. 2402
Stephanie Powell 222-4700 ext. 4418

DEM ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE BAN ON THE TAKING AND POSSESSION OF HERRING

PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management announces that it today filed emergency regulations that ban the taking and possession of river herring, including both alewives and blueback herring, in all of Rhode Island's marine and fresh waters. The ban takes effect immediately, in advance of this year's herring runs, and has the overwhelming support of those who attended a March 13 hearing on the matter. The ban includes retention of herring taken before the regulations became effective.

The regulations are a response to a precipitous drop in the size of the annual spring herring runs over the past few years and align Rhode Island with Massachusetts and Connecticut, where statewide bans are already in place.

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