Dam Removals Helped Bring About a Stunning Comeback for Maine’s Alewives

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

For a few weeks each summer, the Sebasticook River in Benton, Maine, is paved with flashing silver scales, so thick it seems you could almost walk across.

The alewives have returned for their annual migration.

On a mid-May weekend, […] ...