"An estimated 2 million alewives returned to the river on their annual spring run this year, according to state officials. Other sea-run fish returning to the previously impounded 17 miles of river between Augusta and Waterville include American shad, striped bass, sturgeon, and a few Atlantic salmon." Keith Edwards reports on the remarkable comeback of fish populations on Maine's Kennebec River, ten years after a major dam was removed by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In the Kennebec Journal.
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