Update on the 2004 Herring Run Cleanup
The clean-up work on the Dennis herring runs was a complete success. After a short speech by Alan Marcy about the herring runs and the work that's expected to be accomplished by other agencies, which includes replacing one of the culverts with a bridge...the Salties went to work. The first group worked from the lake to the first culvert on Dr. Lord's road. A second group worked in what I call the canyons. That's on the north side of route 6A behind the gas station to [Paddocks] Path and a third group went to the Broad Acres run off of Airline Road.
If you want to see something that hasn't been visible for some time ... take a drive down Dr. Lord's road towards the parking lot at Scargo Lake and see what a great job was done there. The run is completely visible from the road. I would like to give a big thanks to those that showed up. Ruth Ann Leon, Dick Nicholson, John Shilcusky, Dan Perpall, Al Saganich, Frank Kuehn, Stan Kaczynski, Dan Powers and Peter Jackson. As I see it ... about 27.5 work hours went into this project. Speaking for myself and maybe for some others in this group ... I didn't do much for the rest of the day. (See picture of the gang below.)
The next job site was at the Harwich herring run on April 7th at 10 am. This is a much easier run then the Dennis run. It's a brook between Long Pond and Hinkley Pond. We will meet at the Pleasant Lake Market parking lot. That's on route 124 just north of route 6.
The last herring run work was in Yarmouth. Another easy run from Long Pond(in Yarmouth this time) to Swan Pond. This was on April 13th at 10am. We met at the DNR's office. Their office is located at the entrance of the town dump off of Old Town House Road.
A one-Salty crew, Dick Nicholson, worked with the Wellfleet Herring Warden, Jeff Hughes, and several members of the CC National Seashore and AmeriCorps on the Wellfleet Herring River, a 3-4 mile stream that runs from a series of ponds down to the Wellfleet Harbor. They reported that this run is open and waiting for the first herring.
All in all a good effort for the herring; now we hope they escape the factory netters and do their biological thing in our Cape Cod ponds.
Dave Croft, May, 2004