Examples of alewife in a Sentence
Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
The Council got back to work and a bill amending an act regulating the shad and alewife fisheries was passed that day, Philips wrote.
—Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
The small fish such as alewife and rainbow smelt are also subject to predation by predator fish such as chinook salmon and lake trout.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
Hutchinson and his colleagues were able to watch this kind of change in Connecticut lakes thanks to the comings and goings of a fish called the alewife.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
The alewife, another invasive species, then overpopulated the lake and spoiled beaches in massive die-offs through the 1950s and 60s.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2022
The Lake Michigan salmon and trout fishery is dominated by non-native species introduced in the 1960s to help reduce the number of alewife, a small invasive fish that died by the millions and fouled beaches.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2021
The diversity in steelhead food choices puts less strain on the lake's alewife population, which is the preferred forage for chinook salmon, the most stocked and fastest growing species in the lake, and makes steelhead more likely to survive potential downturns in prey fish numbers.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
That restoration effort sputtered for decades — until the alewife population started to fade.
—jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
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Word History
Noun (2)
perhaps alteration of obsolete allowes, a kind of shad, from French alose shad, from Old French, from Late Latin alausa
Noun (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
1633, in the meaning defined above
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