Dolphins were spotted in the Bronx River this week, in what the city’s Parks Department is calling a success story on the historically polluted waterway.
Dolphins have been spotted swimming in the Bronx River — a sign the once notoriously polluted waterway has become a healthy home for marine life, the Parks Department says.. “It shows that the decades-long effort to restore the river as a healthy habitat is working.”
But Marc Sanchez, deputy director of the NYC Parks Department’s Urban Park Rangers, said there’s no mystery.The Parks Department stocks the river with fish each year as part of its restoration efforts, Sanchez said, including species such as Alewife, which dolphins like to eat. “It’s certainly a testament to the improvement of the waters, that the water is able to sustain the fish,” he said.
On Wednesday, Sanchez said, dolphins were also sighted in another historically polluted waterway, Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens.
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