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    Tommy Keister fills a crate of alewives from the skiff used to net the silver fish below the Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Thursday.

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    Tommy Keister rides his skiff back to the rocks to unload the catch of alewives below the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on Friday.

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    Tommy Keister hauls himself in to a small enclosed portion of the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton Friday, as he and others harvest alewives.

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    Alewives swim up stream on the Sebasticook River just below the Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Friday.

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    Ernie Wallace, left, and Tim Keister, right, haul a 100-pound crate of alewives onto the shoot to be hauled up to a waiting refrigerated truck for shipping in Benton on Thursday.

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    Tommy Keister takes a sip of coffee during a rare break in the fishing below the Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Thursday. Keister and others were harvesting alewives as they migrate up the river and to the dam fishway.

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    Tommy Keister rides his skiff back to the rocks to unload the catch of alewives below the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on Friday.

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    Tim Keister guides his brother Tommy's skiff back to the rocks to unload alewives below the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on Friday.

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    Myron Wotton checks the status of his phone during a quick break for lunch just below the Benton Falls Dam on the Sebasticook River in Benton on Thursday. Wotton and others were harvesting alewives as they migrate up the river and to the dam fishway.

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    Myron Wotton, left, and Brendan Olson, right, rolls a 100-pound crate of alewives onto a waiting truck in Benton on Friday. Wotton and others were harvesting alewives as they migrate up the river and to the Benton Falls Dam fishway.

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    Myron Wotton takes a break in the cab of the flat-bed truck as Tommy Keister shovels ice in to alewife storage containers in Benton on Friday. Wotton and others were harvesting alewives as they migrate up the river and to the Benton Falls Dam fishway.

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    Ernie Wallace, of Friendship, tosses the hook and rope to the crew at the bottom of the Sebasticook River bank below the Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Friday during the annual alewife harvest.

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