BRUNSWICK — Nate Gray, a fisheries restoration biologist for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, will give a free lecture titled “Tails of the Kennebec and Sebasticook” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St.
“River herring, generally considered to include alewives, blueback herring and sometimes American shad are probably the most important fish species in the Gulf of Maine. a release from Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, the talk’s sponsor, states. “If river herring cannot safely and effectively reach their spawning grounds, (typically shallow freshwater bodies), spawn and leave, a critical food source for Gulf of Maine groundfish is greatly diminished and the ocean fishery suffers further.”
Gray has worked extensively on the Kennebec River and its tributaries since 1992, the release states.
For more information, contact Ed Friedman at 666-3372 or edfomb@comcast.net.
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