Alewives have returned to Mill Brook in Westbrook this spring, swimming upstream to get to Highland Lake to spawn. It’s the largest fish migration from Casco Bay and part of Maine’s success story in ...

May 18—TRAVERSE CITY — Those living on or visiting the coast of Lake Michigan, from Manistee to Elk Rapids, may be seeing — and smelling — something familiar this week. Dead alewives — small, silvery ...

HARVEYS LAKE – In early and mid-April, if you stood near Harveys Lake and closed your eyes, you might have thought you were at the seashore. The characteristic cries of seagulls resounded as the ...

Jaime Burns, left, and her father Steve Bodge harvest alewives on the Nequasset Stream in Woolwich. Bodge, 78, has been involved in the harvest in the same location since 1958. Photo by Troy R.

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Thousands of small fish are making their way to Maine this spring. River herring, or alewives, spend a majority of their life at sea, but return to freshwater to spawn. As Alyssa Thurlow reports, ...

Large ice formations that stretched along the Lake Michigan shoreline have melted now, but may still spell trouble for Lake Michigan alewives and the fish that feed on them. SOUTH HAVEN, MI --From the ...

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WEST NEWTON — Michael Leviton arranges fillets of golden alewives over a scoop of ramp remoulade, then drizzles ramp vinaigrette along the plate’s edge at Lumiere, his upscale restaurant recently ...