Ten years ago, the run of alewives in the Skutik (St. Croix) River hovered around 16,000. Though that’s more than the 900 fish from a decade earlier, it was not a great total for a river that once held millions of fish. It was, however, the beginning of what many people now consider a successful river restoration.
Read more from Chief Hugh Akagi’s keynote address to the 2024 Atlantic Salmon & Their Ecosystems Forum in The Working Waterfront.
Catherine Schmitt 