Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, MaineTodayMedia staff Morning Sentinel news story BENTON — Alewives are little fish with a big story. Each year, billions of the silver fish hatch out of eggs in the cool waters of the Sebasticook River and embark on a dangerous journey to the sea and back again. Those that return must make it Read More
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Outdoors: Alewives Return in Numbers
Dave Sartwell, outdoor writer Gloucester Times This could be a banner year for the return of alewives to the North Shore. Although we are still early in the run, all indications are that the work being done by a host of different governmental agencies and volunteer organizations and the restrictions being put in place on Read More
A Home Run for Maine Alewives
The Benton Alewife Festival is set to celebrate a record return of fish hatched from eggs that were laid in 2009. By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Morning Sentinel Portland Press Herald news story BENTON – Alewives are on pace for a record run in Benton, whose residents will celebrate their relationship with the migratory fish Saturday during Read More
Maine Environmental Groups Applaud Committee Vote on EPA Administrator Nominee Gina McCarthy, Call for Sens. Collins and King to Back EPA Nominee
News release Augusta, Maine – Today, a majority of Senators on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted to send EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy’s nomination to the floor of the Senate. In response, Maine’s major environmental organizations today applauded the vote and called on Senators Susan Collins and Angus King to publicly endorse Read More
Maine Alewives Heading for Newly Opened Fishways This Week
In time, the St. Croix River could have the largest alewife run in the country. The Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story BAILEYVILLE — Alewives are expected to swim upriver of the Grand Falls dam on eastern Maine’s St. Croix River this week for the first time in 22 years. Lawmakers passed a law Read More
Alewives Swimming Up Maine’s St. Croix River
The Associated Press Boston Globe news story BAILEYVILLE, Maine (AP) — Alewives are expected to swim upriver of the Grand Falls dam on eastern Maine’s St. Croix River this week for the first time in 22 years. Lawmakers passed a law this spring allowing the fish, also known as river herring, to swim upriver of Read More
Maine Legislators Turn Down a Ban on Tar Sands
Committee members instead endorse a bill that would require more study of issues related to the fuel. by North Cairn, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story AUGUSTA — A legislative committee voted unanimously Monday to reject a proposed two-year moratorium on any transportation of tar sands oil in Maine, deciding instead to have the Read More
Dam Opens for First Time in 22 Years for Alewives
WLBZ-2 news story BAILEYVILLE, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Alewives are a sea-run fish that grow in the ocean but come back to the lakes to spawn. But for the past two decades these fish have been limited to where they can go. But thanks to a new law, that is all about to change. In Read More
Alewives are Heading Up Into the St. Croix River for the First Time in 22 Years
Poised to become largest alewife run in the nation NRCM news release Baileyville, Maine – This week marks a big leap in the lives of river herring of the St. Croix River. For the first time in 22 years, this year alewives will be passing the Grand Falls Dam to return to spawn in high-quality Read More