Pew Supports Observer Option to Reduce Industrial Fishing's Environmental Damage DANVERS, Mass., Sept.

NOAA scientists have developed a population model for Atlantic herring that links herring population trends to the size of the haddock population.

Scientists say that fish are being threatened by man-made noise pollution.

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Peter Baker of The Herring Alliance, +1-508-641-4064; or Roger Fleming of Earthjustice, +1-978-846-0612; or Pam Lyons Gromen, of National Coalition for Marine Conservation, +1-703-777-1961 New report exposes risk posed by mismanagement of large-scale fleet, proposes solutions PORTLAND, Maine, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report released today by the Herring Alliance (www.herringalliance.org) exposes a threat to New England's coastal waters that has gone largely unnoticed in recent decades: the mismanagement of the commercial Atlantic herring industry.

By Steve Grant, The Hartford Courant, Conn. May 17--This is the first in an occasional series about the fish species of Connecticut -- from the ever- popular striped bass to the lesser-known river herring. Some fish we like to eat; some we don't. Some are flourishing; some are not.