Bagaduce River-wide fishways project hits new milestone
BROOKSVILLE—On a recent spring day, Mike Thalhauser peered down into the recently restored alewife run at Walker Pond to see if any of the anadromous fish had completed the journey from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the local freshwater pond.
To the disappointment of the lurking gulls, there were none, but this spring, thousands of alewives will likely make the final sprint along the spruced–up run for the first time in order to get to the pond to spawn.
It’s something that only a few years ago wasn’t as easy a task for alewives, an important species in the ecosystem’s food chain.