Down East fishways project gets nearly $8M from Congress

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 16, 2024

A multimillion dollar replacement of a failing fishway on a St. Croix River dam will begin next year to reopen 600 miles of sea-run fish habitat. Congress recently awarded $7.8 million for the new fish lift at Baileyville’s Woodland Dam. It is one of several projects on the river aiming to boost the state’s fishing industries by returning populations of fish once common there — particularly alewives.