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Restoring Alewives in Maine Rivers

Throughout our history, NRCM has worked to support healthy fish populations returning to Maine’s rivers, and we’ve had big victories. With removal of the Edwards Dam in 1999 and the Fort Halifax Dam in 2008, more than two million alewives (river herring) now return to the Kennebec River each spring. The Penobscot River Restoration Project, completed in 2016, is also providing tremendous benefits for alewives and the full range of fish and wildlife in the Penobscot River and throughout the Gulf of Maine.

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June 7, 2024 | NRCM

Alewives Abound at Benton Falls

At the end of May we were lucky enough to join our colleagues on a field trip to the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook…

October 5, 2022 | Pete Didisheim, Senior Director of Advocacy

Celebrating Maine’s Clean Water Champions

Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act Remarks by Pete Didisheim, NRCM Interim CEO, at a Clean Water Act event on September 29th…

June 22, 2018 | NRCM

Restoration of Alewives in Maine Rivers is No Fish Tale

Some animal migrations are large and obvious. I’ve seen many films of giant wildebeest herds moving across the plains in Africa numbering in the hundreds…

January 23, 2018 | NRCM

Opposition to LD 1667, An Act To Prohibit the Entry of Anadramous Fish Species into Sheepscot Pond for 3 Years and To Study the Consequences of the Presence of Anadromous Fish in Sheepscot Pond

Senator Cyrway, Representative Duchesne, and members of the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) Committee: My name is Nick Bennett, and I am the Staff Scientist…

Mountains near proposed CMP corridor Sam Steele

March 25, 2013 | NRCM

NRCM Testimony In Support of LD 72, An Act to Open the St. Croix River to River Herring and Opposed to LD 584, An Act to Provide for Passage of River Herring on the St. Croix River in Accordance with an Adaptive Management Plan

by Nick Bennett, NRCM Staff Scientist and Watersheds Project Director Good morning Senator Johnson, Representative Kumiega and members of the Marine Resources Committee. My name…