The weekend results are not yet fully reported, but we exceeded 6000 fish observations on Earth Day 2012! The fish continue to be running, with at least a couple hundred observed again today.
Let's revisit our counts, and project the daily total count, assuming the 10 minute profiles are a good approximation of each hour of fish migration. For our peak day of 1483 fish over 90 minutes, that equates to 11,864 fish over 12 hours!
But that cannot be, you say? Some of those fish were falling backward and were being double counted during the peak hours! That's true - however, the fish were clearly running for more than 12 hours each day. We had 70 fish logged in our 7 am count, and 100 fish logged in our 6 pm count that day, so those fish may have been jumping all night!
It's a safe bet that well over 12,000 fish jumped into the Mill Pond on that peak day! We'll never know how many more than that there were, but that means there are tens of thousands of herring in Middle Pond and Mystic Lake now!
It's wonderful news!
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