The alewife spawning season that begins this month across Long Island will be helped by several fish passages constructed over the past two years to provide the feeder fish access to spawning waters ...

A man photographs seagulls searching for alewives at the Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Restoration on Monday. Because of recent heavy rains, the water was too powerful for the fish to travel upstream ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jaime Burns, left, and her father Steve Bodge harvest alewives on the Nequasset Stream in Woolwich. Bodge, 78, has been involved ...

The bank beside the spillway at Little River descends steeply enough that pond water pouring into a pool below the dam drowns out the sound of cars passing on the roadway. This time of year, bare ...

River herring, also known as alewives, swim in a stream on May 16, 2021, in Franklin. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP This year’s April showers brought May flowers and a poor alewife yield in Lincoln ...

Each spring, alewife herrings return to spawn in New England rivers. In recent years, the removal of dams has led to a resurgence of the little fish that are a key part of the food chain. Up and down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by.

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GRAND RIVER — The federal Fisheries Department has accused seven people in Nova Scotia of unauthorized fishing after its ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is looking for volunteers from May through early ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by. There, in the crashing shallows below the Main Street Dam, the gull ...