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Monday, March 15, 2010 at the Pittsfield Library Conference Room
Join the Sebasticook River Watershed Association & Maine Rivers for a short film:
“Closing the Circle: The Alewife Run in Damariscotta Mills”
A film that features Mainers and the amazing history of alewife migration
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Saturday, March 20, 9:00-11:30
Site walk and design workshop, March 20
Intervale Park on the Mousam River, Kennebunk
Residents welcome to join Intervale park planning process | SeacoastOnline.com
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Maine Rivers supports legislation to keep ocean fishing fees in Maine and use revenues for river restoration efforts.
Join us on Wednesday in Augusta on Wed. 1/20 for a work session to discuss this legislation.
Op-ed from the Portland Press Herald, Sun. 1/17/10: Keep ocean fishing fees in Maine
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Maine Must Let Alewives Swim Free in St. Croix River
“Alewives are ecologically and economically important. They serve as a forage base for fish, mammals and birds, from mink to eagles, from cod to whales. They serve as a buffer against predation on Atlantic salmon smolts, which migrate out of rivers while alewives migrate in. They are important to lobster fishermen as bait when other sources of bait are scarce. Many Maine communities add thousands of dollars annually to their treasuries through the lease of alewife harvesting rights.” Read this recent editorial by Clinton B. Townsend, outlining our efforts to restore alewives to the St. Croix River:
Maine Must Let Alewives Swim Free in St. Croix River, Bangor Daily News, 6/18/09
Read the petition from Maine Rivers, the Atlantic Salmon Federation and NRCM, supported by 48 other organizations, to the International Joint Commission: