You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Before I came to Maine, I knew alewives, or rather Alewife, as a subway ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BENTON — The menu included locally smoked whole alewife and two varieties of ...

Each spring, alewife herrings return to spawn in New England rivers. In recent years, the removal of dams has led to a resurgence of the little fish that are a key part of the food chain. Up and down ...

My town has a fish. Or maybe the fish has us. It’s a herring known as an alewife—about nine inches long, with a forked tail and a belly that shines like hammered chrome. Every spring after the snow ...

Large ice formations that stretched along the Lake Michigan shoreline have melted now, but may still spell trouble for Lake Michigan alewives and the fish that feed on them. SOUTH HAVEN, MI --From the ...

A lot of eyes are focused on this year’s salmon spawning run, and plenty of ears await word on just when it’s time for a trip to a favorite lakeshore river. But it’s the mouths — or in many cases in ...