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
Cisco (fish) Cisco (fish) The ciscoes (or "ciscos") are salmonid fish of the genus "Coregonus" that differ from other members of the genus in having upper and lower jaws of approximately equal length and high gill raker counts. These species have been the focus of much study recently, as researchers have sought to determine the relationships among species that appear to have evolved very recently. The term "cisco" is also specifically used of the North American species "Coregonus artedi", also known as lake herring. In previous taxonomic classifications, the ciscoes have been identified as a subgenus "Leucichthys" of the genus "Coregonus". Based