Resolve, To Ensure the Effective Implementation of Alewife Restoration on the Sebasticook River Watershed
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1322
Committee: Marine Resources
Sponsors: FLETCHER, FITTS, STEDMAN, THOMAS, THOMPSON, DAVIS, GAGNON

Legislative Document 
No. 1322 
H.P.921 
House of Representatives, March 15,2005 
Resolve, To Ensure the Effective Implementation of Alewife 
Restoration on the Sebasticook River Watershed 
Reference to the Committee on Marine Resources suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative FLETCHER of Winslow. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: FITTS of Pittsfield, STEDMAN of Hartland, THOMAS of 
Ripley, THOMPSON of China, Senators: DAVIS of Piscataquis, GAGNON of Kennebec. 
Printed on r.:cycled paper 
Sec. 1. Department of Marine Resources shall develop, perform and 
report results of cost and benefit analysis. 
Resolved: 
That 
the 
Department 
of 
Marine 
Resources 
shall 
develop 
and 
perform 
a 
comprehensive cost and benefit analysis of the restoration of 
alewives to the Sebasticook River system waterways of China Lake 
in China, Great Moose Lake in Hartland, Indian Pond and Little 
Indian Pond in St. Albans and Lake Wassookeag in Dexter. 
This 
analysis must include, but is not limited to, the following: 
1. 
The estimated cost of achieving fish passage at the 
obstructions located on the waterways that provide access to 
these specific lakes and ponds, as well as the estimated ongoing 
cost to maintain and operate fish passage; 
2. 
The total cost of preventing the introduction of exotic 
species into these water systems once fish passage is achieved; 
3. 
The forecasted economic benefit to be derived from the 
reintroduction of alewives into these specific waterways and the 
measuring system that will be used to document the actual benefit 
produced; and 
4. 
The 
estimated 
resources 
needed 
to 
achieve 
the 
restoration as well as the funding sources that will be required. 
The Department of Marine Resources shall report the results 
of its analysis 
to 
the 
Joint Standing 
Committee 
on 
Marine 
Resources and the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries 
and wildlife 
by 
January 
15, 
2006. 
Further efforts 
by 
the 
Department of Marine Resources to reintroduce alewives into these 
specific waterways 
must 
be delayed until the Joint Standing 
Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Joint Standing 
Committee on Marine Resources have had an opportunity to review 
the results of this analysis and approve further efforts to 
reintroduce alewives. 
Funding for this analysis must be from the 
existing Kennebec River Restoration Fund, currently being held by 
the National Fish and wildlife Foundation. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve requires the Department of Marine Resources to 
develop and perform a comprehensive cost and benefit analysis of 
the 
restoration of 
alewives 
to, specified 
waterways 
of 
the 
Sebasticook River system. 
The department must report to the 
Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and wildlife and the 
Joint Standing Committee 
on Marine 
Resources 
by January 15, 
2006. 
Further efforts by the department to reintroduce alewives 
to these specified waterways mus,t be delayed until the committees 
have had an opportunity to review the report of the department 
and approve further efforts to reintroduce alewives . 
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