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Mashpee Wampanoags and public officials are working hard to educate the public about tribal fishing and hunting rights to prevent harassment.

BUZZARDS BAY — A member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe said he is planning to press charges against a motel co-owner following a dispute last week over access to a herring run. Steven DeGrace, of Onset, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, claims he was harassed and assaulted while trying to catch herring, as is allowed by aboriginal rights. However, motel co-owner Ronnie Armany says the confrontation was a misunderstanding.  DeGrace said he  was with friend Markiese Tomkinson at the Herring Run Motel on the Scenic Highway on the afternoon of May 7 when they were involved in an al...

A loon surfaced intermittently a few feet off the southern shore of Santuit Pond as several ospreys—recently returned from an intercontinental migration—circled overhead or perched in still-leafless trees. To a voice memo app on his phone, Jim Carroll noted the date (March 31, 2021), the time (a little past 5:30 PM), the weather (80 percent clouds) and air temperature (11 degrees Celsius, or 51 degrees Fahrenheit). Mr. Carroll dipped a thermometer over the edge of the Santuit fish ladder, where a few dozen alewife herring gathered in pools. After a moment, he retrieved the thermomet...

Carrying his fishing rod and gear, Dan Hannigan recently walked to Spectacle Pond in Wareham, where he chiseled a hole in the ice with a hatchet to drop a lure into the water. With the relatively warm weather this season, the ice is thin, less than the 4 inches needed to walk on it. Standing by the side of the pond, he set a trap with a spring mechanism. When a fish bites, a flag will rise to alert him. And so he waited. Hannigan, a member of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, is among several Wampanoag people in the area who fish year-round in Wareham, on Cape Cod and in Plymouth to keep th...

Carrying his fishing rod and gear, Dan Hannigan recently walked to Spectacle Pond in Wareham, where he chiseled a hole in the ice with a hatchet to drop a lure into the water. With the relatively warm weather this season, the ice is thin, less than the 4 inches needed to walk on it. Standing by the side of the pond, he set a trap with a spring mechanism. When a fish bites, a flag will rise to alert him. And so he waited. Hannigan, a member of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, is among several Wampanoag people in the area who fish year-round in Wareham, on Cape Cod and in Plymouth to keep th...