The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection has opened a $6.3 million project letting fish bypass the Tingue Dam in Seymour.
The project allows fish species like American shad, blueback herring, alewife, and American eel to access and spawn in about 30 miles of habitat from Long Island Sound to Thomaston.
The fishway was a joint effort of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services, the Housatonic River Natural Resource Damage Trustee Council, and the town of Seymour.
