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Alewife fish run through former site of Hopewell Mills Dam in Taunton

The Taunton Daily Gazette —The alewife are back..The river herring are running through the former site of the Hopewell Mills  Dam, according to the Nature Conservancy. Over the last nearly two centuries,  dams in the river clogged up the waterway, impeded migration and made the area  uninhabitable for the fish, the environmental group said. continued