Alewife Run in St Croix River a Hot Issue Again That Maine's Governor Will Try To Resolve
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press Herald] By Kevin Miller - April 28, 2015 -
AUGUSTA, ME, The LePage administration wants to create a working group to examine the scientific arguments over alewives in the St. Croix River as a way to defuse the latest flare-up in a debate over the fish that has raged for two decades.
When the Legislature voted two years ago to reopen the St. Croix to migrating alewives, bill supporters hoped it would finally end the fight pitting Grand Lake Stream-area fishing guides and sporting lodge owners against biologists, lobstermen and Passamaquoddy communities in the U.S. and Canada.
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