Members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head are asking federal regulators to help restore the river herring, a forage fish they said is vital to the regional food chain.

A statewide moratorium on catching river herring remains in place but offshore commercial fishing trawlers continue to net the fish as bycatch.

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