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18753# 01alewives VASSALBORO, MAINE May 19, 2022. Marilyn R. Pukkila (cq) walks next to a completed Denil fishway during an event that celebrated the project completion along Outlet Stream that flows past the Olde Mill Place at 934 Main St. in Vassalboro, Maine Thursday May 19, 2022. The event, hosted by Maine Rivers, featured a ribbon cutting by Maine Governor Janet Mills. The completed project clears the migration path up China Lake Outlet Stream for the alewives. The project is designed to restore river access and encourage the return of the alewives. (Morning Sentinel/Rich Abrahamson)

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18753# 01alewives VASSALBORO, MAINE May 19, 2022. People gather at a completed Denil fishway during an event that celebrated the project completion along Outlet Stream that flows past the Olde Mill Place at 934 Main St. in Vassalboro, Maine Thursday May 19, 2022. The event, hosted by Maine Rivers, featured a ribbon cutting by Maine Governor Janet Mills. Mills is pictured at the bottom left, The completed project clears the migration path up China Lake Outlet Stream for the alewives. The project is designed to restore river access and encourage the return of the alewives. (Morning Sentinel/Rich Abrahamson)

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18753# 01alewives VASSALBORO, MAINE May 19, 2022. A bald eagle presides above a completed Denil fishway during an event that celebrated the project completion along Outlet Stream that flows past the Olde Mill Place at 934 Main St. in Vassalboro, Maine Thursday May 19, 2022. The event, hosted by Maine Rivers, featured a ribbon cutting by Maine Governor Janet Mills. The completed project clears the migration path up China Lake Outlet Stream for the alewives. The project is designed to restore river access and encourage the return of the alewives. The eagle watched from above the stream and flew away during the ribbon cutting portion of the event. (Morning Sentinel/Rich Abrahamson)

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18753# 01alewives VASSALBORO, MAINE May 19, 2022. People gather at a completed Denil fishway during an event that celebrated the project completion along Outlet Stream that flows past the Olde Mill Place at 934 Main St. in Vassalboro, Maine Thursday May 19, 2022. The event, hosted by Maine Rivers, featured a ribbon cutting by Maine Governor Janet Mills. The completed project clears the migration path up China Lake Outlet Stream for the alewives. The project is designed to restore river access and encourage the return of the alewives. (Morning Sentinel/Rich Abrahamson)

Alewife Student Science

GARDINER, ME - APRIL 18 Gardiner Area High School students carry Wednesday May 18, 2022 buckets of alewife over a dam on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. The students captured, studied and released the fish above the impediment. (Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)

Alewife Student Science

GARDINER, ME - APRIL 18 Gardiner Area High School students record the weight, length, scale samples and the gender of alewife they collected and released Wednesday May 18, 2022 on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. (Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)

Alewife Student Science

GARDINER, ME - APRIL 18 Gardiner Area High School student Natasha Marshall collects Wednesday May 18, 2022 an alewife for students to examine on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. (Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)

Alewife Student Science

GARDINER, ME - APRIL 18 Gardiner Area High School students release Wednesday May 18, 2022 alewife they examined above a dam on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. (Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)

Alewife Student Science

GARDINER, ME - APRIL 18 Kennebec Valley Trout Unlimited volunteer Greg Ponte nets Wednesday May 18, 2022 alewife for Gardiner Area High School students to examine at Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. (Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)

Alewife Student Science

GARDINER, ME - APRIL 18 Gardiner Area High School students weigh, measure, determine the gender and scale Wednesday May 18, 2022 of alewife captured in Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. (Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)

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18753# 01alewives VASSALBORO, MAINE May 19, 2022. A fish sculpture is displayed as people gather at a completed Denil fishway during an event that celebrated the project completion along Outlet Stream that flows past the Olde Mill Place at 934 Main St. in Vassalboro, Maine Thursday May 19, 2022. The event, hosted by Maine Rivers, featured a ribbon cutting by Maine Governor Janet Mills. The completed project clears the migration path up China Lake Outlet Stream for the alewives. The project is designed to restore river access and encourage the return of the alewives. (Morning Sentinel/Rich Abrahamson)