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Sewage plant upgrades, marsh restoration, fish passages and other projects have improved the recreational, economic and wildilfe values of Long Island Sound…

The ban on the taking of alewives and blueback herring from the state’s inland and marine waters has been extended for another year.

Typically, any travelers who back up near the stretch of Interstate 95 at Exit 74 are human, but this month the traffic jams involve fins, scales and an all-consuming instinct to mate and spawn. Typically, any travelers who back up near the stretch of Interstate 95 at Exit 74 are human, but this month the…

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About 2½ hours after launching his small boat in the Niantic River Thursday, Lewis Bull returned to the state boat launch in Waterford with a bucketful of oysters, a dozen or so quahogs and just four scallops.

Beginning in 2013, the lobstering season in Long Island Sound will be closed for 11 weeks in the fall to reduce the catch and give the depleted shellfish population time to rebuild.

The Niantic River Watershed Committee is continuing to move forward with efforts to address water-quality problems in the river, convening its first Board of Directors to oversee monitoring and public education projects.

The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit conservation organization, and the Town of East Lyme announced today that TPL has reached an agreement to purchase 301 acres known as the Darrow property for conservation, drinking water, and watershed protection.

A legislative committee unanimously approved rules Tuesday for the amounts of water that must be released from dams to maintain ecologically healthy flows in all the state’s streams.

Ten years ago, concerned with the condition of the Niantic River and rumors of development plans in the Oswegatchie Hills, Grimsey decided after meeting with The Day’s editorial staff that he and friends should start a grassroots environmental non-profit organization, Save the River-Save the Hills, Inc.