alewives

Noun

The word is derived from alewife

Meaning

of Alewife

Examples

Also, a certain level of water must be maintained in the stream to allow for the egress of alewives. Source: Internet

Unfortunately, we now aren’t able to harvest some of the species that were once abundant because the rivers that those fish need to travel into for spawning were dammed in the early 1700s, cutting off natural runs of salmon, alewives and sturgeon. Source: Internet

Now scientists are trying to fully understand how salmon are impacted by alewives, an invasive species that has become a main source of food for salmon, a keystone predator that eats smaller fish. Source: Internet

Mr. Conklin, a science teacher at Riverhead High School, initially would take his students down to the river to carry the alewives over the dam using nets. Source: Internet

The Explorer wrote earlier this year about its issues with alewives. Source: Internet

Vanderhoop was seining alewives from the old Aquinnah run one morning when the environmental police showed up and told him that for commercial purposes, he had to stop. Source: Internet

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