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Once again, the Connecticut River Water Council (CRWC) is trying its best to make Vermont Yankee the bad guy.
This group, which according to its annual report is supported financially by an anti-Vermont Yankee charitable foundation, says Vermont Yankee's heated water discharge may be hurting the Connecticut River shad population.
Marine fisheries scientists with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seem to have a different opinion. These scientists say the Connecticut River shad population is at its highest in 20 years.
They attribute the previous decline in shad populations to a number of factors: overfishing (commercial netting) in the lower river (shad spend most of their lives in the ocean, returning to the river to spawn); barriers such as hydro dams; and the population boom in predators such as striped bass.
