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 ...

They swam against the current of the Damariscotta River, braving a large gathering of gulls looking for dinner. Just ahead, the fish faced an uphill climb through dozens of small stone pools built to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The long, gently sloping chute is designed to slow the flow of some of the water cascading down a dam in the Carmans River, so alewives and other fish can swim up to spawn in Hards Lake. State and ...