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Tremont board votes to close Seal Cove Brook to recreational river herring fishing for 2025
Summary
The Tremont Select Board unanimously directed the town manager to notify the Maine Department of Marine Resources that Seal Cove Brook will be closed to recreational river herring fishing for calendar year 2025 and that the town will not lease its river herring rights.
The Tremont Select Board on March 3 voted unanimously to close Seal Cove Brook to recreational river herring fishing for calendar year 2025 and to decline leasing the town’s river herring rights. The motion, made by Select Board member Kevin Buck and seconded by Select Board member Howard Goodwin, instructs the town manager to advise the Maine Department of Marine Resources of the board’s decision.
The action stemmed from a request by the Department of Marine Resources for the Select Board’s guidance on managing alewife runs in town waterways. The board’s vote both restricts recreational harvest in Seal Cove Brook for 2025 and signals Tremont will retain — but not lease — its statutory rights to river herring in that waterway.
Town Manager Jesse Dunbar is the official designee to notify the Maine DMR and carry out any administrative follow-up. The board did not specify a timeline for revisiting the closure or leasing decision within the transcript.
The decision was taken during regular business and passed unanimously by the members present.
