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Herring - common name for members of the large, widely distributed family Clupeidae, comprising many species of marine and fresh-water food fishes, including the sardine the menhaden and the shad found along...
Alewife
This article is about the fish. For the female tavernkeeper, see alewyfe. For the MBTA station, see Alewife (MBTA station).
Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack.
Distribution ...
Some food species of eagles include bullhead fish (Ictalurus spp.), alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), chain pickerel (Esox niger), sucker (Catostomus spp.), salmon (Oncorhyncus spp.), white perch (Morone americana), ...
In Lakes Michigan and Ontario, chinook salmon are the major predators consuming alewife stocks.
Stirring mud in the shallows, chasing insects on the wing, and diving or dipping into the water, this gull often forages in flocks. Its diet includes many fish (alewife, stickleback, and perch), insects (true bugs, beetles, cicadas, flies) grain, ...
Elimination of these predators allowed the alewife, another invasive species, to explode in population, having adverse effects on many native fish species.
Alewife and glut herring are often found in their stomachs in the northern states. Habitat The striped bass is anadromous, native to a variety of habitats including shores, bays, and estuaries.
 See also: Herring, Salmon, Shad, Trout, Lamprey
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