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Originally Posted by rizzo
The upper section of the CT below the Holyoke dam is completely freshwater - it's like 100 miles from the ocean, so it's possible?
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Of the roughly 400+ total miles of the Connecticut River, only the first 60 (up to Windsor Locks) is tidal and I am sure the saltwater intrusion ends much closer to the coast than that. Striped bass have been lifted over the dams as far inland as the Turners Falls dam (120 miles upriver). The fish I saw while diving were smaller than 5 inches and were in the Windsor Locks area in August. To say that a school of juvenile fish swam down the Hudson, up Long Island Sound and then up the CT River is less believable to me than it is to think a small population of SB have evolved so that they can successfully reproduce in the conditions provided by this river.