http://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2016/04/dec_2015_was_sub-par_fishing_year_for_lake_ontario_and_its_tributaries_1.html#incart_river_home
Nothing we didn't already know.
"The adult population of alewives has been stable for about five years, he said, but there's been a poor survival rate of the younger fish in 2013 and 2014. That should result in a lower adult population in 2016."
Ouch.