Upcoming Meetings

Spring/Summer 2026 Meeting - June 30, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Please email gomriverherringnetwork@gmail.com for information about how to join the meeting.

Upcoming Events

2026 River herring festivals and events

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2026 Maine and New England Fish Events

‍March

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• 03/28/2026 Fish Printing and Exploration at the Maine Science Festival 9:00 am-4:00 pm, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor Maine

• 03/28/2026 “We are River People” Nuno Felting Workshop 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Windsor, MA

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April

• 04/11-12/2026 Middleborough's 13th Annual Herring Run Festival, 11:00 am (April 11)- 4:00 pm (April 12), Oliver Mill Park, 8 Nemasket Street, Middleborough, MA 02346

• 04/25/2026 24th Annual Downeast Salmon Federation Smelt Fry & Fisheries Celebration, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, Downeast Salmon Federation, Columbia Falls, Maine

• 04/25/2026 11th Annual University of Maine Spawning Run 5K, 9:00 am – 11:00 am, Grove Street Extension, Orono, ME, USA

• 04/25/2026 Plimoth-Pautuxet Herring Run Festival, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, Plimoth Grist Mill, Plymouth, MA

• 04/25/2026 “We are River People” Nuno Felting Workshop 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Becket, MA

May

• 05/01-02/2026 “We Are the Watershed” , Eastport Arts Center, 36 Water Street, Eastport, ME

• 05/02/2026 World Fish Migration Day - Houlton, Maine, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, Downtown Houlton & The Riverfront Park, 49 North St, Houlton, ME 04730

• 05/02/2026 “We are River People” Nuno Felting Workshop 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Chesterfield, MA

• 05/07/2026 Migratory Moments: An Exhibition Celebrating Our Connection to Rivers, Fish, and Wildlife, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, South Hadley Public Library, Canal Street, South Hadley, MA

• 05/16/2026 Benton Alewife Festival, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, Benton Town Office, 1279 Clinton Ave, Benton, ME 04901

05/23/2026 World Fish Migration Day

• 05/23/2026 Skutik River Alewife Run, 5:00 am start time, Start: Spiayik Split Rock, Boat Landing, Maine; Finish: Forest City, East Branch St. Croix River, Maine

• 05/23/2026 Run with the Alewives, 9:00 am start time, Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder, 335 Bayview Rd, Nobleboro, ME

• 05/23/2026 Orange River Fishway Construction Update, 9:00 am – 11:00 am, 160 US Rt 1 Hwy, Whiting, ME

• 05/23/2026 Presumpscot Regional Land Trust Alewife Migration Walk. 10:00 am -12:00 pm, Mill Brook Preserve, Westboro, ME (Registration Required)

• 05/23/2026 Celebrate Our Royal River, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Royal River Park, East Elm Street, Yarmouth, ME

• 05/23/2026  Narramissic-Orland River Watershed Migratory Fish Celebration, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Fish Point/Castine Rd in Orland Village, ME

• 05/23/2026 5th Annual Pennamaquan Alewife Festival, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, 12 Little Falls Road, Pembroke, ME

• 05/23/2026 Create Colorful Rock Fish & Celebrate the Waterfall Memorial Install, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Riverbank Park, Westbrook, ME

• 05/23/2026 Narraguagus River Ice Dam Removal and Nature-like Fishway Construction Update, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Cable Pool Park, Cherryfield, ME

• 05/23/2026 •World Fish Migration Day at the Mousam River, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Rogers Pond, Water Street, Kennebunk, ME

• 05/23/2026 World Fish Migration Day Community Art Event, Unity, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Unity Community Center, 32 School Street, Unity, ME

• 05/23/2026 World Fish Migration Day in Hinsdale, NH, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm, Millstream Riverfront Park, 19 Main St, Hinsdale, NH

• 05/23/2026 A Fish Migration Celebration during World Fish Migration Day, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Holyoke Rows, 25 Jones Ferry Rd, Holyoke, MA

  May (Continued)

• 05/24/2026 Bagaduce Alewife Celebration, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm, Pierce Pond, Penobscot, ME

• 05/24/2026 Fish Ladder Fundraiser Concert with the Adam Ezra Group, 4:00 pm (Doors 3:30), Lincoln Theater, Damariscotta, ME (Tickets $60)

• 05/27/2026 Presumpscot Regional Land Trust Alewife Migration Walk. 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Mill Brook Preserve, Westboro, ME (Registration Required)

• 05/29/2026 World Fish Migration Day on the Sheepscot River, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Palermo Preserve, Turner Ridge Road, Palermo, ME

• 05/30/2026 Presumpscot Regional Land Trust Alewife Migration Walk. 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Mill Brook Preserve, Westboro, ME (Registration Required)

• 05/31/2026 Free Fishing Weekend Maine

• 05/31/2026 For All the Fishes Conference, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Downeast Salmon Federation, 13 Willow Street, East Machias, ME (Registration Required)

• 05/31/2026 For All the Fishes Free Concert, 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Bad Little Falls Park, Machias, ME

  June

• 06/02/2026 Presumpscot Regional Land Trust Alewife Migration Walk. 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Mill Brook Preserve, Westboro, ME (Registration Required)

• 06/06/2026 Presumpscot Regional Land Trust Alewife Migration Walk. 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Mill Brook Preserve, Westboro, ME (Registration Required)

• 06/31/2026 Gulf of Maine River Herring Network Spring/Summer 2026 Meeting. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. (Zoom) Please email gomriverherringnetwork@gmail.com for information about how to join the meeting.

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