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After blocking fish migrations for centuries, thousands of aging dams are being torn down across America, bringing salmon, shad, and river herring back to their ancestral waters. In 2024 alone, dam removals reconnected more than 2,500 miles of rivers.
After nearly disappearing from Maine's rivers, 20 million alewife fish surged upstream this year following decades of dam removal and fishing limits. It's the largest run in generations for a species once so abundant you could scoop them up by hand.