road salt

[lennyr]

Alot of road salt building up in the area I live in. Could this impact the herring spawn this year? How about marsh and flat areas I fish in the spring? This cannot be a good thing. Are the towns using something different this year, it seems real powdery for some reason. There is enough junk in the runoff already!

[redlite]

I thought they used some type of corn by product with the salt now that is supposed to be more environmentally friendly?

[Raven]

Generally, the
following conditions exist where spawning Atlantic herring adults are found: water temperatures
below 15° C, depths from 20 - 80 meters, and a salinity range from 32 - 33‰. Herring eggs are spawned in areas of well-mixed water, with tidal currents between 1.5 and 3.0 knots.
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ok ......so you can have a salinity rate of no higher than 33 %
supposedly next step is to do the hydrology of the water (s) that are in question to check for too high a salinity. Only a company with credentials can do it so that you can present the evidence to the governing body> who prolly ain't concerned about the damned herring.

[MakoMike]

Originally posted by Raven
ok ......so you can have a salinity rate of no higher than 33 %
supposedly next step is to do the hydrology of the water (s) that are in question to check for too high a salinity. Only a company with credentials can do it

You can check the slinity with a hydrometer that you can buy for about five bucks at any pet shop than handles salt water fish.

[Raven]

take your own hydrology reading and keep a log or if to high march right in their with it and show them the salinity first hand.

thankyou ! MakoJoe for that contribution




then you can do the howard dean speech parody right in the office about how you going to washington yeeeeahhhhh.

[lennyr]

Nice replies gentelmen, I will get a salinity tester and as soon as the flatts thaw I will begin checking, Raven where did you get all that info? Good stuff! I spend most of my life around the water and know so little about it. Its funny, I know where the fish are at a given time of the year , but not why the fish are there or not. I have seen the shallow marsh areas degraded (some are now unfishable). I don't fish the surf so to speak and love the action of big bass in the flats. As the coastal tidal areas degrade the bass will move into deeper water (along with the bait fish) and our boating friends get the choice of them. wondering if this is why the fishing vessels where catching and the shore guys not.