Brook Parkway and the Alewife Brook Reservation. The Red Line (MBTA) of Boston's T ends at the Alewife station, so the name of this fish adorns the front of every northbound Red Line train. An extensive habitat restoration and education project, combined with a fish ladder with monitoring cameras, is yielding increasing numbers of alewife back in the improving Mystic River watershed. The alewife is a US National Marine Fisheries Service Species of Concern, about which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, has some concerns regarding status and threats, but for which insufficient information is available to indicate a need to list the species under the US Endangered Species Act. References Further reading Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Alewife Virginia Marine Resources Commission The Man with the Salmon Plan External links Species Profile- Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library. Lists general information and resources for Alewife. Fish Win: Maine About-Face Lets Alewives Return to Canada Border River Alosa Fish of Canada Fish of the Eastern United States Fish of the Great Lakes Fish of North America Freshwater fish of North America Fauna of Atlantic Canada Fish described in 1811 Taxa named by Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)