MAINE PUBLIC • August 1, 2023
State officials say that an increase in the number of alewives returning to Maine's rivers could be helping to boost populations of Atlantic salmon. The Maine Department of Marine Resources says nearly 1,500 salmon have returned to dams in Orono and Milford along the Penobscot River this year, and about 150 have been counted at two dams along the Kennebec. Both numbers are the most since at least 2015.