Alewife runs restored in East Coast rivers

Alewife runs restored in East Coast rivers - National Fisherman

The Passamaquoddy Tribe and other entities demanded that the state open the fishways, and beginning in 2008, the state opened the dam in ...

Rivers Reborn: Alewives Fish Make a Recovery in Maine

The alewives are no longer regularly eaten, but instead are important to the Maine coastal economy as bait for lobster traps, although the ...

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

A restoration plan produced by the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Skutik estimates that the river might support a run of more than 80 million adult ...

Restoring Alewives in Maine Rivers

Opening up the St. Croix River for alewife passage should eventually produce an annual run of about 20 million fish, which will provide huge benefits for ground ...

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

The largest river restoration project on the East Coast is in progress on the St. Croix River as a collaboration of cross border entities, ...

Dammed but Not Doomed | Hakai Magazine

As dams come down on the Skutik River, the once-demonized alewife—a fish beloved by the Passamaquoddy—gets a second chance at life ...

Restoration of the Alewife | Natural History Magazine

In addition, there are dozens of smaller Maine coastal river systems that have existing alewife runs or the potential for future runs. Many Maine ...

More alewives are swimming up the restored Bagaduce watershed

While this spring's alewife run is still underway, observers are optimistic it will rival last year, when the numbers leapt past what they had ...

The little stream that could, and will again | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The 4,000-acre China Lake adds 50% more alewife spawning habitat to the Sebasticook River watershed. The seven-mile stream adds 20% more blueback herring ...

The Comeback: Restoring Maine Rivers - The Nature Conservancy

Maine is one of the last places along the East Coast where sea-run fish migrations can still be restored on a grand scale, and thanks to the ...

River Herring (Alewife) - Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Regional focus on restoration of their critical river habitat has led to significant increases in the number of active and potential river herring runs in Maine ...

Alewife Revival - On The Water

Alewife revival projects on Long Island begin with river restoration to improve fish passage for migrating herring looking to spawn.

With new efforts to improve fish passage, Maine is seeing a record ...

Scientists say many more alewives and blueback herring have made their way into Maine's waterways this year — a recovery they attribute to dam ...

Diadromous Fish Restoration - Peconic Baykeeper

Long Island's threatened native river herring (alewife) are diadromous, meaning they live in both salt and freshwater throughout their life cycles.

The Fish that Feeds All: Restoring Habitats for River Herring has ...

Alewife during their spring spawning migration in the Bagaduce River, Maine. Credit: Tate Yoder/Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ...

Maine River Herring Fact Sheet | Department of Marine Resources

The Clean Water Act of the 1970s has helped re-establish a cleaner environment that now enables the restoration of alewives and other anadromous fish species to ...

Alewife Recovery Continues on St. Croix River, Breaking Records

Alewives continue to return to the St. Croix River in greater numbers, with a 2020 fish count exceeding 2019's by more than 25 percent and the highest totals ...

All About Alewives - Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Restoration

Bush for their collaborative work to remove Smelt Hill Dam on the Presumpscot River and restore sea-run fish – including an estimated 150,000 – ...

River Miles Restored for Fish Passage - Long Island Sound Study

4.20 new stream miles were reported opened in 2023, due to the Post Office Dam Removal, Whitford Pond Dam Fish Passage, and Strong Pond Dam Removal, CT. Two ...

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

Concerns have been raised that restoration of native alewife runs to eutrophic lakes may exacerbate algae blooms and reduce water clarity.