Tag: Alewife

  • A fish called an alewife being held in a man's hands as he stands in a pile of recently harvested fish

    Rebuilding the Ladder

    Alewife, a species of river herring native to Eastern North America, has been harvested at Maine’s Damariscotta Mills fish ladder since the early 1800s. Two hundred years later, the ladder […]

  • Fish called alewives swim under the surface of a pond

    The Real Alewives of Kennebec County

    Alewife, a fish with a funny name, lives in the ocean and swims upstream to spawn in lakes along the east coast of North America. Historically, their vast populations fed […]