River Herring Season to be Closed on The Delaware River and Other Waters

At their quarterly meeting on July 12, 2011 The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC)  approved A final rulemaking order imposing a closed season on river herring in the Delaware River and Delaware Estuary; the Lehigh and Schuylkill rivers and their tributaries; and the Conowingo Reservoir on the Susquehanna River.

The changes are being made in cooperation with N.J., N.Y. and Delaware as part of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s interstate management plan for shad and river herring, which states that the river herring population remains at a depressed level.