As sure as summer brings music festivals to Milwaukee it is also the season for die-offs of alewives around Lake Michigan. The small, silvery, non-native fish have been littering the lake's shorelines ...

Nathan Hamilton maintains a fire using feathers Saturday while cooking alewives at the Benton Alewife Festival. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel BENTON — Though the star attractions of the Benton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jaime Burns, left, and her father Steve Bodge harvest alewives on the Nequasset Stream in Woolwich. Bodge, 78, has been involved ...

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 ...

The bank beside the spillway at Little River descends steeply enough that pond water pouring into a pool below the dam drowns out the sound of cars passing on the roadway. This time of year, bare ...

The alewives are running and an array of festivities are planned to celebrate this awesome natural event and the restoration of the stone fish ladder, which the fish climb to spawn in the fresh water ...

River herring, also known as alewives, swim in a stream on May 16, 2021, in Franklin. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP This year’s April showers brought May flowers and a poor alewife yield in Lincoln ...

The alewives are back in town. Alewives are a big deal in Exeter. The fish on the town seal? It’s an alewife. We used to have a festival devoted to the tiny fish, and I hear it may return next year.

Up and down the New England coast, nature lovers are flocking to rivers to witness an awe-inspiring spring ritual - thousands of little fish on a long voyage home. Nora Saks has this audio postcard ...