Amid PFAS fallout, Mainers navigate medical risks

His family has harvested alewives at the same Maine stream for a century. Steve Bodge operates an alewife harvesting operation in Woolwich, and splits profits fifty-fifty with the town. Now 78, he has recruited his daughter to help. Read this Maine Monitor story by Troy R. Bennett.

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