ORLAND — Flashing silver in the afternoon sun slanting across the Orland River, hundreds if not thousands of alewives collect in the fish weir before being carried by conveyer belt
“Today was good,” harvester Casey Soper said, watching the alewives trundle up the chute and tumble out into the truck bed. “The best this year, so far.”
ORLAND — In an agreement reached between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery, the hatchery will reduce the amount of phosphorus it discharges to
May in Maine is migratory season for alewives as they return to fresh water to spawn. Orland, one of 17 unique ecological sites in Maine where alewives are still harvested,