Between now and April 2, the Fish Ladder Restoration Committee is accepting submissions of a T-shirt design from Maine residents (year-round, summer or student). The winning design will be used as the 2016 “o’fish-al” graphic on T-shirts and some promotional items for the May 29-29 annual Alewife Festival.

Show off your creativity and submit an entry. You could be the winning artist who receives $100 and two T-shirts with your own design having helped support the renovation of Maine’s oldest fish ladder and most productive alewife fishery.

Contest guidelines: The design must include an alewife or alewives, be your original design that does not contain any copyright material. You may use the Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder logo within you design. No photographs will be accepted. The design must be black and white and not exceed 11 inches wide by 12 inches high. Submit your entry by April 2, 2016 in medium resolution 300 dpi JPEG via email to smordamil@gmail.com

For more information, visit http://www.damariscottamills.org/