“We’re not getting any response from either the agencies or the power company as to what they intend to do to prevent this from continuing,” Shaw says. “And we understand that the same situation is underway down on the Androscoggin.”

That fish kill near the Brunswick-Topsham dam is estimated to have killed thousands of out-migrating fish, says Ed Friedman of the group Friends of Merrymeeting Bay. Friedman says he personally went to the site over the weekend and documented and photographed several hundred dead fish himself. His group has long been working to ensure safe fish passage for migrating fish like endangered Atlantic salmon, shad, alewives and eels. But Friedman says fish passage at the site remains inadequate.