Riverton Dam being removed on the North Fork Shenandoah River. Photo bAlan Weaver/VDGIF

As far back as 1670, Virginia prohibited structures like dams that would hinder fish migrating up and down our rivers. Why? They recognized their future depended on the millions of delicious migratory fish swimming our coastal rivers. That changed as growing cities and towns built hundreds of dams and road culverts blocking fish from their spawning grounds. But over the past decade, more than 1,000 miles of river have been re-opened to migratory fish in Virginia.

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