TURNER PUBLISHING • May 13, 2020
Tens of thousands of alewives are churchng at the base of the paron at Gardiner Paperboard Dam, the first dam on Cobbossee Stream, trying to get upstream to spawn. Upstream Cobbossee is grateful for the citizen science work that juniors at Gardiner High School have done since the project began three years ago. By sampling hundreds of alewives deach spring, researchers are getting a better idea of what fish passage restoration could mean. This spring, with school physicallly closed, Upstream board members and activists suited up, put on face masks and set up shop on the rock pile immediately downstream of the dam to try to fill in for the student-scientists of Gardiner Area High School.