Our Annual Meeting: The Reunion of Alewives in Roger Lake

Date: Fri June 19, 2015
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Hall, 249 Hamburg Road (Rte 156) Hamburg, CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: A Panel of Speakers
!!! seems it only displays well the 2nd time? ugh.

Alewives 2A panel made up of Yale ecologist David Post, DEEP Fisheries expert Steve Gephard, and National Geographic writer and author Richard Conniff will discuss the reunion of long separated alewives: landlocked freshwater and their migratory ocean/freshwater cousins. The dam on Rogers Lake has separated them for almost 350 years. In 2014, a fish ladder was installed to allow the migratory fish to reach Roger’s Lake from the Mill Brook, which connects the lake to Long Island Sound. Will the cousins, which are the same species, interbreed even though they have evolved to be quite different in appearance and behavior? Read an amusing article written for the New York Times by Richard Coniff about the potential reunion of these fish cousins: Love on Rogers Lake: A Tale of Two Alewives.

To see videos of activity at a fish ladder in Lyme this Spring: Moulson Pond Fishway

Everyone is welcome. The evening will begin with casual social time and then a brief  business meeting. Members will be asked to vote for new director nominees. The presentation will follow.

Alewives by Patrick Lynch

Alewives 2A panel made up of Yale ecologist David Post, DEEP Fisheries expert Steve Gephard, and National Geographic writer and author Richard Conniff will discuss the reunion of long separated alewives: landlocked freshwater and their migratory ocean/freshwater cousins. The dam on Rogers Lake has separated them for almost 350 years. In 2014, a fish ladder was installed to allow the migratory fish to reach Roger’s Lake from the Mill Brook, which connects the lake to Long Island Sound. Will the cousins, which are the same species, interbreed even though they have evolved to be quite different in appearance and behavior? Read an amusing article written for the New York Times by Richard Coniff about the potential reunion of these fish cousins: Love on Rogers Lake: A Tale of Two Alewives.

To see videos of activity at a fish ladder in Lyme this Spring: Moulson Pond Fishway

Everyone is welcome. The evening will begin with casual social time and then a brief  business meeting. Members will be asked to vote for new director nominees. The presentation will follow.

Alewives by Patrick Lynch


Alewives 2A panel made up of Yale ecologist David Post, DEEP Fisheries expert Steve Gephard, and National Geographic writer and author Richard Conniff will discuss the reunion of long separated alewives: landlocked freshwater and their migratory ocean/freshwater cousins. The dam on Rogers Lake has separated them for almost 350 years. In 2014, a fish ladder was installed to allow the migratory fish to reach Roger’s Lake from the Mill Brook, which connects the lake to Long Island Sound. Will the cousins, which are the same species, interbreed even though they have evolved to be quite different in appearance and behavior? Read an amusing article written for the New York Times by Richard Coniff about the potential reunion of these fish cousins: Love on Rogers Lake: A Tale of Two Alewives.

To see videos of activity at a fish ladder in Lyme this Spring: Moulson Pond Fishway

Everyone is welcome. The evening will begin with casual social time and then a brief  business meeting. Members will be asked to vote for new director nominees. The presentation will follow.

Alewives by Patrick Lynch

Alewives 2A panel made up of Yale ecologist David Post, DEEP Fisheries expert Steve Gephard, and National Geographic writer and author Richard Conniff will discuss the reunion of long separated alewives: landlocked freshwater and their migratory ocean/freshwater cousins. The dam on Rogers Lake has separated them for almost 350 years. In 2014, a fish ladder was installed to allow the migratory fish to reach Roger’s Lake from the Mill Brook, which connects the lake to Long Island Sound. Will the cousins, which are the same species, interbreed even though they have evolved to be quite different in appearance and behavior? Read an amusing article written for the New York Times by Richard Coniff about the potential reunion of these fish cousins: Love on Rogers Lake: A Tale of Two Alewives.

To see videos of activity at a fish ladder in Lyme this Spring: Moulson Pond Fishway

Everyone is welcome. The evening will begin with casual social time and then a brief  business meeting. Members will be asked to vote for new director nominees. The presentation will follow.

Alewives by Patrick Lynch