WEYMOUTH — The four men donned protective gear, headlamps, and carried large nets as they descended a 35-foot ladder into a 10-foot-wide, water-filled tunnel today on a mission to save tens of thousands of herring that had become stranded in recent days on their annual pilgrimage to spawn in Whitman’s Pond.
The snub-nosed, silver-colored fish had become the latest victims of the statewide floods in March, when rushing water and debris forced open a gate designed to prevent the herring, known as alewives, from entering the flood-control tunnel.
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