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Alewife Harvesters Oppose Threatened Status
Our (the AHM board’s) comments are meant to apply to and hopefully influence decisions regarding river herring that persist inside Maine’s borders. Those fish that spawn here, are harvested here and managed here are our primary concern. We recognize that there are difficulties with river herring populations in other states and provinces north and south [...]
Maine ASMFC River Herring Sustainable Fishing Plan
The purpose of this sustainable fisheries management plan is to ensure that existing river herring resources within Maine continue to thrive and provide a source of forage for Maine’s fish and wildlife and provide commercial fishing opportunities in coastal communities.
The State of Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) and municipalities that historically harvest river herring [...]
SUCCESS OF FIRST ALEWIFE HARVEST ENCOURAGES TOWN This year will see Benton’s second harvest made possible by the removal of the Fort Halifax Dam.
Originally published by the Portland Press Herald
By SCOTT MONROE Morning Sentinel
BENTON — Rick Lawrence didn’t know what to expect before last year’s first alewife harvest from the Sebasticook River.
He predicted the town might make $5,000 on the fish harvest. It ended up generating $19,108 in new revenue for the town.
It was the year’s largest alewife [...]
River flows, fish flourish with dam demise
Originally published by the Daily Reporter
Glenn Adams
AP Writer
Augusta, ME (AP) — A backhoe took a bite out of the Edwards Dam 10 years ago, releasing the waters of the Kennebec River that had been held back for more than a century and a half. Months after that first torrent gushed through from upstream, the entire [...]
Groups Call For Action To Open St. Croix River To Alewives
50 U.S. and Canadian Groups Petition International Body
McAdam, New Brunswick, Canada—Fifty organizations from the United States and Canada have called upon the International Joint Commission (IJC) to require that the St. Croix river be opened up for passage of alewives (river herring). The lead groups in this effort are the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) (based [...]
Alewives And Harvesters See Strength In Numbers
Originally published by “The Fisherman’s Voice,” by Catherine Schmitt
Since coming together in 2008, the Alewife Harvesters of Maine have been a busy group, engaging in rulemaking processes at the state and federal levels and working with biologists to gather data on Alosa pseudoharengus, while taking time out to celebrate the alewife season. Their efforts were [...]
ALEWIVES MADE HUGE SPLASH This year’s run could be largest in the U.S.
Originally published by the Morning Sentinel
BY LARRY GRARD Staff Writer
BENTON — The town’s Sebasticook River alewife run might be the largest in the United States this year, an official from the Department of Marine Resources says.
While most of those fish made it to upstream ponds to spawn, more than 350,000 of them were netted. The [...]
Alewives annual journey gets easier in Maine
(NECN: Amy Sinclair, Damariscotta Mills, Maine) – At first, your eyes see only the rushing water. Then, you begin to see them, thousands of slippery silver fish swimming mightily against the current. Alewives, sometimes called river herring, have been putting on this homecoming parade up the fish ladder to Damariscotta Lake every May for hundreds [...]