Alewives

Maine will receive more than $35 million from the federal government to upgrade culverts that can block upstream fish passage for endangered species and funnel water after heavy downpours.

River restoration projects along the Maine coast have allowed populations of migratory fish to rebound, and Sean Ledwin of the Maine Department of Marine Resources says fish runs are exploding this time of year.

The Downeast Salmon Federation says that the operations of a dam along the Union River in downtown Ellsworth caused the death of thousands of fish earlier this month.

The last time alewives made the 70-mile journey from the ocean to China Lake in central Maine, the American Revolution had just come to an end in 1783. Since then, the sea run fish, also known as river herring, have been blocked from their historic spawning grounds by a series of dams. But this week, something remarkable happened: the fish returned.

PORTLAND, Maine - The federal government says two species of herring are not at risk of going extinct, and will not be listed under the Endangered Species…

Alewives, or river herring, are making their usual spawning migration to Maine in unusually high numbers this year, thanks in part to restoration efforts…

The annual migration of the alewife is at its peak in Maine. These fish return each year to Maine's rivers and streams--and their populations are growing…

Conservation groups are raising red flags about what they say are two significant fish kills in Ellsworth and Brunswick over the past week. They say both…

The Canadian government has joined the fray over a controversial proposal to prevent the passage of alewives into the St. Croix River near the…

Fifteen years ago today the 160-year-old Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in the heart of downtown Augusta was breached. Environmentalists say removing…