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WARREN, Maine — Fishermen and regulators call the return of alewife runs in Maine a success story.

In the '80s, the fishery was all but gone. Dams and overfishing drove the migratory fish, which lives in the ocean and returns to ponds to spawn, out of the playbook for lobstermen bait.

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