Whiting Mill Pond dam project to boost more than alewife numbers
· paula whitfield
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As he gestures at the Whiting Mill Pond dam, fisherman Adam Boutin says, "Forty years ago, this stream was black with alewives. There would be 20 people down there dipping the alewives," a river herring species that swims upriver each spring. "Nothing can get in the nets now."
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