Alewives — a small, silver fish also known as river herring — are usually sold to lobstermen to be used as bait. They spend most of their time in the ocean but travel upriver to lakes and ...

S ome fish stay in the same cozy bodies of water all year long. Others, like the alewife, a fish found in the waters of the Northern Atlantic Ocean, migrate between different areas to spawn and ...

Boat anglers reported a slower week for salmon fishing. A few Chinook and coho salmon were caught 30 to 100 feet down in 80 to 150 feet of water. Orange and green spoons proved effective.

Millions of alewife died over the winter and are now washing ashore. Fear not, however, as the die-off can be seen as Mother Nature’s way of keeping checks and balances on the invasive species.

In the fewer than 40 Maine towns with sufficient alewife runs to support a commercial harvest, conveyors are often used to move fish from the water to where they’re sorted into crates. In Orland ...

Now millions of fish, among them alewives, are swimming upriver again to inland spawning grounds. ANIMALS; ... bait fishermen trap alewives in river weirs or scoop them up in hand-held dip nets.

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.

After female alewives lay 50,000 to 150,000 eggs each, adult alewives eventually move back out to the bay and the sea, as much as 100 miles out, by May’s end at the latest.

Vermont wildlife officials say the warm weather is causing alewives to wash up. The non-native species are subject to seasonal fish kills because they can’t handle the lake’s cold temperatures.