ASSOCIATED PRESS • December 13, 2021
The last of five projects aimed at easing the passage for thousands of alewives to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Bagaduce River watershed to reproduce has been completed. That means alewives will have an easier time this spring, thanks to the efforts of the towns of Penobscot, Sedgwick and Brooksville, along with the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries and several other organizations. The project aims to help alewife populations that were negatively affected by dams, pollution, overfishing and blocked runs. NOAA said that similar improvements elsewhere in Maine could be on the horizon.