A crowd gathers Thursday at a fishway installed in 2020 adjacent to Olde Mill Place in Vassalboro. The ceremony was in recognition of the efforts of the the Yarmouth-based group Maine Rivers and others that cleared the way for alewives to continue their migration up the China Lake Outlet Stream and onto China Lake.
A fish sculpture is displayed Thursday as people gather to celebrate the earlier installation of a fishway near Olde Mill Place on Main Street in Vassalboro. The event was hosted by Maine Rivers and was attended by Maine Gov. Janet Mills. The fishway at Box Mill dam allows alewives to proceed up China Lake Outlet Stream to China Lake.
Marilyn Pukkila walks Thursday next to a fishway that was installed in 2020 near Olde Mill Place in Vassalboro. An event was held nearby to mark the return of alewives up China Lake Outlet Stream and to China Lake.
A bald eagle sits Thursday above the new fishway near Olde Mill Place on Main Street in Vassalboro.
A crowd gathers Thursday at a fishway installed in 2020 adjacent to Olde Mill Place in Vassalboro. The event, hosted by the Yarmouth-based organization Maine Rivers, marked the completion of a years-long project to clear the migratory path of alewives that allows the fish to continue up China Lake Outlet Stream and onto China Lake. Alewives can now return to the lake this year for the first time in some 230 years. A series of dams had long blocked the alewives' migration.
Gardiner Area High School students carry buckets of alewives over a dam on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner on Wednesday. The students captured, studied and released the fish above the impediment. Their work is part of a broad effort involving many groups that helps the fish continue their migration upriver.
Gardiner Area High School students record the weight, length, scale samples and the gender of alewives they collect and release Wednesday on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner.
Gardiner Area High School student Natasha Marshall collects an alewife Wednesday for students to examine on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner.
Gardiner Area High School students take an alewife Wednesday that they examined and release it above a dam on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner.
Kennebec Valley Trout Unlimited volunteer Greg Ponte uses a net Wednesday to capture alewives so that they can be examined by Gardiner Area High School students at Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. Their work is part of a broad effort to collect data on the fish as conservation groups and others work to clear the alewives' migratory path upriver.
Gardiner Area High School students weigh, measure and collect other data on alewives captured Wednesday on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner.
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