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Lakeville fisheries commission sets May 2 cutoff for herring ladder counts after repeated "fallbacks"
Summary
The Town of Lakeville Herring Fisheries Commission voted to stop manual ladder counts after May 2, citing repeated fallbacks (fish moving back down the ladder) that produced spikes and made later counts unreliable. The commission will provide an explanatory note to state fisheries when submitting final estimates.
The Town of Lakeville Herring Fisheries Commission voted Wednesday to set the end of May 2 as the cutoff for this season’s manual herring ladder counts, citing repeated “fallbacks” — fish moving back down the ladder after appearing in the counting area — that made later tallies unreliable.
Commission members said the pattern of fish repeatedly moving up and then back down through the ladder produced unusually large, transient counts on some days and therefore risked producing misleading data for state estimates.
The commission’s action followed several days of discussion during which members described sequences of short-term spikes and repeated appearances by the same fish. Members reported…
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