Karl Meyer: Fish futures on a broken river

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Karl Meyer, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, who is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. He is a participating stakeholder in FERC relicensing proceedings for the Northfield Mountain and Turners Falls projects.
It’s been decades since migratory fish on New England’s great river got a break — bleak since deregulation came to federally licensed electricity plants on the Connecticut beginning in 1998.
Deregulation turned a r