MORNING SENTINEL • October 30, 2021
When the alewives return to central Maine in the spring, for the first time in decades they will have an uninterrupted migration to China Lake. That’s thanks to the completion of a years-long project spearheaded by the conservation group Maine Rivers. The Yarmouth-based organization recently completed a fishway at the China Lake Outlet Dam, removing a final barrier to alewife migration along the China Lake Outlet Stream — the sixth and final barrier to the fish’s migration to the lake and an ancestral breeding ground.