Fish Migration Community Parade 2024

All are welcome to join in this community parade on Sunday, May 21st in Pawtucket, RI, featuring drumming, dancing, crafts, music, and more. 1-4pm. Rain or shine!

Led by our partners, the Narragansett Indian Tribe and the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc, we are working to create a stronger voice for the Blackstone River, or Kittacuck. This community event will bring diverse partners together to learn about and show their support for the need to create fish passage over the lower four dams in Rhode Island and bring back migratory fish such as the herring.

S creenprint a t-shirt as a take-home reminder of the Blackstone/Kittacuck. Bring your own t-shirt, or we'll have some provided.

Color a paper fish and join the march to symbolically carry these paper herring over the lower two dams.

Join our indigenous partners - the Narragansett Indian Tribe, Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc, and other tribes to learn about the migratory fish's important history to tribal culture for millennia.

Learn why getting fish around the dams in Pawtucket and Central Falls is beneficial for community well-being, tourism, recreation, the economy, & more.

- -> Please remember to bring your reusable water bottle! Water filling available.

- -> In the event of inclement weather, our event will be held inside the Visitor Center across the street (175 Main St., Pawtucket, RI 02860)

Host or Publisher Blackstone Watershed Collaborative