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Several jurisdictions have full or partial bans on mass balloon releases, including Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee, New York, California, Texas and Virginia, as well as some municipalities.

Suckers, April 2008

Photos by Paul Lauenstein

Boys netting large spawning suckers at Sucker Brook as it flows into Lake Massapoag on Earth Day, 2008. Why is it called Sucker Brook?

Two dozen or more large white suckers spawning in Beaver Brook in mid-April.

Suckers releasing eggs and milt on gravel redd in Beaver Brook (splash is caused by vigorous tail thrashing like a rattlesnake's tail, which mixes the eggs and milt, and disperses them).

Billings Brook (on SFOC Earth Day trash cleanup outing - we extricated a big tire from the brook!).

Earth Day volunteers Kurt Buermann, Alice Cheyer, Mike Sherman, David Stringham, and Hans Luwald with trash collected from town conservation land near Beaver Brook.

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