Bonus shift as a herring monitor

It’s getting to the end of the herring monitor season, for the Mystic River Watershed Association. Today, I happened to be in town today so I picked up one last shift this morning. I counted zero fish during my shift, which was to be expected.They’ll keep counting for another week just to be sure, but the herring have pretty much all migrated back out to be sea by now.

It was a beautiful day.

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