Alewife Numbers Continue to Grow on St. Croix River

Alewives are returning to the St. Croix River in improved numbers, with 270659 counted crossing the Milltown Dam – located between St.

Alewives Return to St. Croix River in High Numbers in 2021 Fish ...

More than a half million fish passed through Milltown Dam on their way up the St. Croix River to spawn this year, a powerful sign of how alewife populations ...

St. Croix River alewife runs jump as fishways built - Quoddy Tides

As a result, there's been a steady uptick in fish counts, taken each year at the Milltown dam. "In 2023, we counted 841,357 river herring," ...

Collaboration on St. Croix Fish Passage Projects May Create ...

It had persisted for more than 140 years. Following removal of the Milltown Dam, hundreds of thousands of alewives, a keystone species in river ...

Outdoors: Alewives Return in Numbers

“The return of alewives to the St. Croix River offers new hope for the health of the Gulf of Maine and its fisheries. The St. Croix can now ...

Does What Goes Up Also Come Down? A Management Tool to ...

While barriers to migration have led to dramatic population declines throughout coastal New England, a recent resurgence in alewife abundance ...

Dammed but Not Doomed | Hakai Magazine

Under pressure from the sport-fishing industry—which understood alewife as a threat to smallmouth bass, their prize target—Maine passed a law ...

Indigenous, U.S., Canadian efforts restoring fish run - Island Institute

Ten years ago, the run of alewives in the Skutik (St. Croix) River hovered around 16,000. Though that's more than the 900 fish from a decade ...

Restoring Maine Alewives | Conservation Law Foundation

On Maine's St. Croix River, for example, a population of more than 2.5 million alewives in the 1980s plummeted to barely 900 in 2002, due to a deliberate ...

An Act To Stop The Alewives Restoration Program In The St. Croix ...

Croix River, the Maine legislature has succeeded in preventing this species of fish from spawning. The practical effect of this has been to almost completely ...

Distribution and Abundance of the Anadromous Alewife (Alosa ...

Historically, the St Croix river was noted for its large runs of anadromous fish, particularly Atlantic salmon, American shad, and alewife. Due ...

DMR Receives Funds to Improve Sea-Run Fish ... - Maine.gov

The project could result in river herring runs that exceed 20 million annually, which would double the number of river herring returns to the ...

St. Croix Watershed - Maine Rivers

Croix alewife population, created controversy at local and international levels. This year, fisheries agencies on both sides of the St. Croix, cooperating ...

Status Review Report: Alewife and Blueback Herring

Final Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected. Resources. 160 pp. ii. Page 3. River Herring Status Review Team (SRT):. Robert ...

The St. Croix River should be opened to alewives - Bangor Daily News

Croix River Steering committee agreed to close the Vanceboro fishway during the alewife run. And in 1995 the Maine Legislature passed a bill ...

Alewives' Perilous Lives Crucial to Ecosystem, Economy

In theory, though, the numbers of alewives could continue to climb ... River, river restoration, St. Croix River. About NRCM. The Natural ...

6. Native Alewife Restoration and Lake Water Quality - Senator ...

This spike in TP had been observed in epilimnetic composite samples in previous years after the bloom had occurred. Adult alewife reached a high of ~100 ...

Recovery: Alewives, the Little Fish with a Big Role

It has not been easy. On the St. Croix River, which defines part of the border with New Brunswick and has the potential to support a run of 22.7 ...

Alewife technical document - RPubs

Of these species, alewives are the most abundant and have the highest potential for population restoration. Studies have suggested that this ...

St. Croix River seeing rebound in number of returning alewives

The annual alewife run up the St. Croix River has already passed last year's total. The official count at the Milltown Dam reached 607,053 ...