For more information on the festival or to sign up for the road race check out their calendar. This years festival is still likely to be effected by covid, BUT the fish do not care and will be running from approximately May 1 through June 15. As before, there will be plenty of food, music and fun for all ages! And of course, there will be ALEWIFE VIEWING up and down the beautifully restored fish ladder! and kickoff with a 5K foot race earlier in the morning. This year’s festival will be held on Saturday, from 10 a.m.

The festival may be only one day a year, but what a day it will be! As always, the fish will be the main event - it will be possible to view alewives by the fish house, along the fish ladder, in the Williams backyard, and at the top of the ladder. The alewives return each spring and festivities are planned to celebrate this awesome natural event and the restoration of the stone fish ladder, which the fish climb to spawn in fresh water Damariscotta Lake. Alewives are anadromous (sea-run) fish that spend the majority of their life at sea but return to freshwater to spawn.

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