Connecticut River Passumpsic, Ammonoosuc, White, Black, West, Ashuelot, Millers, Deerfield, Chicopee, Westfield, and Farmington rivers. The Swift River, a tributary of the Chicopee, has been dammed and largely replaced by the Quabbin Reservoir which provides water to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority district in eastern Massachusetts, including Boston and its metropolitan area. There are several species of anadromous and catadromous fish, including brook trout, winter flounder, blueback herring, alewife, rainbow trout, large brown trout, American shad ("Alosa sapidissima"), hickory shad, smallmouth bass, Atlantic sturgeon, striped bass ("Morone saxatilis"), American eel, sea lamprey, and endangered shortnose sturgeon and dwarf wedgemussels. Additionally, the United
Blackbanded darter Blackbanded darter The blackbanded darter ("Percina nigrofasciata") is a small freshwater fish belonging to the "Percina" genus in the "Percidae" family. It is native to the river systems of the southeastern United States where it is found in the states of South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. It lives over sandy or gravelly bottoms in smaller rivers and streams and its color varies depending on the different habitats in which it lives. It feeds on small insect larvae and is itself preyed on by larger fish. It spawns between February and June depending on locality. It is