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Finally Alewives are back in their best habitat

As of this morning (May 6, 2013) more than 550,000 alewives have passed the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River, a tributary of the Kennebec River. Maine has one of the best, if not the best, alewife populations on the eastern seaboard. After 18 long years, effective 12:00:01 AM April 22, 2013 when the emergency legislation, L. D.