For the second straight year, an alewife herring was found in the historically polluted Bronx River, signaling that restoration efforts are working. Rep. Jose Serrano told the Daily News, "We have turned a dead river that was unusable for our community into a living river with wildlife." Alewives were reintroduced to the river in 2007, and pass through on their way to spawn from Nova Scotia. Natural Resources Group director Marit Larson said the next step is getting them over the 182nd Street damn to spawn. He said, "NRG and the Bronx River Alliance are continuing...to plan the construction of fish ladders at all three dams in the Bronx. This will open the upper reaches of the river as spawning grounds for even more returning alewife." At press time, it was unclear how many eyes the fish have.