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Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife sanctuary encompassing the majority of Plum Island in northeastern Essex County, Massachusetts, 5 miles southeast of Newburyport. It was established in 1942 primarily to provide feeding, resting, and nesting habitats for migratory birds.
Part of the island is shown, then Plum Island Sound, and in the background Jeffrey's Neck, Ipswich. To the right of that is the entrance to the Eagle Hill River. The inland side of Plum Island is an estuary containing four subcategories of ecosystem: salt marsh, fresh marsh, tidal creeks and bays and intertidal flats. Over the last 50 years the ...
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge: Plum Island: 1942 4,662 acres (18.87 km 2) [199] Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge: Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Vermont: 1997 31,216 acres (126.33 km 2) [200] Thacher Island National Wildlife Refuge: Thacher Island: 1972 22 acres (0.089 km 2) [201]
This weekend, Massachusetts residents will be able to enjoy fishing at any public lake, pond, reservoir, stream or river in the state without a license as part of Mass Wildlife's annual Free ...
Plum Island and its surrounding estuaries are a popular destination for birders. Plum Island Sound is on a migratory route for many varieties of birds, as well as being a nesting area for piping plovers. Much of the beach in the National Wildlife Refuge is closed to visitors during the nesting season, which can last most of the warm months.
A North American right whale entangled in fishing gear. Related: Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Spotted Nursing Calf Near Cape Cod — See the Video! The second whale is an adult ...
Grape Island, sometimes known as Grape Island, Ipswich, is a part of Plum Island, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in the United States.For nearly two centuries, Grape Island was a small, but thriving community of fishermen, farmers, and clam diggers, until the land was purchased by the US Government and turned into a wildlife refuge in the middle of the 20th century.
The crew on Riley Starks’ reef net fishing boat off Lummi Island pulled in about a dozen salmon in one catch, pulling about 75 fish total on Sept. 14, 2023. It’s a slow day. In a good year ...