All About Alewives
What is the Northern Atlantic Ocean?
This fish can only be kept if it is over 28 inches long.
What is the striped bass?
Adults enter streams during these two months to spawn.
What are May and June?
This fish is a preferred bait for the lobster fishery
What is the alewife?
This dam was removed in 1995.
What is the Bangor Dam?
This is the typical length for an alewife.
This monster of a fish can grow to be very large, lives a long life and is an anadromous bottom feeder. It's considered a living fossil.
What is the sturgeon?
Alewives typically do not spawn until they have reached this age.
What is 4 or 5 years old?
This element is brought into streams and later removed by migrating juvenile alewives.
What is phosphorus?
This dam in Old Town was removed in 2012.
What is the Great Works Dam?
This category of fish includes the alewives, shad, and bluebacks.
What are river herring?
Alewives provide excellent cover for this very vulnerable fish species that's on the brink of extinction.
What is the Atlantic Salmon?
Adults that survive spawning immediately do this.
What is return downstream?
This act was first passed in 1972, establishing the structure for regulating the discharge of pollutants into waters of the USA.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The Veazie dam was removed in this year.
What is 2013?
This is the reason why alewives are a species of concern and not "endangered."
What is a lack of population data?
These three types of fish are collectively called herring.
What are American shad, alewives, and blueback herring?
Juvenile alewives migrate back to the sea during these months.
What are July - November?
This phrase was redefined in April of 2020 and is considered a big win for property developers and agricultural producers.
What is "waters of the US"?
This dam in Brewer/Orrington was removed in 2009.
What is the Lower Sedgeunkedunk Meadow Dam?
This type of fish migrates from the sea to freshwater to breed.
What is an anadromous fish?
The blueback herring can be distinguished from an alewife by its abdominal cavity that is this color.
What is black?
Alewife eggs hatch this many days after being laid.
What are three to six days?
This is the rule that famously redefined a phrase of the Clean Water Act, allowing for the weakening of over 100 environmental rules.
What is the Navigable Waters Protection Rule?
These two dams were both removed in 1999.
What are the Brownville and Hampden Recreation Area Dam?