alewife
Shad's silvery cousin
An alewife is a small silvery fish of the herring family, found along the Atlantic coast of North America and in the Great Lakes.
Alewives swim upstream to spawn and were historically important as food and bait.
The plural is alewives.
Separately, an alewife is a woman who keeps an alehouse—a now-archaic term.
Small silvery Atlantic fish
- shadCoastal herring variety
- menhadenOily Atlantic baitfish
- anadromousMigrating upstream to breed
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
forage · schooling · silvery · baitfish · pelagic · brackish · estuary · plankton
Migrating upstream to breed
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- upstreamToward a river's origin
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- streamSteady continuous flow
run · passage · return · annual · life-cycle · breeding · phenology · swim
Warm-fermented malt drink
- tavernPublic drinking establishment
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- brewingBeverage preparation process
- taproomBar serving draft beer
innkeeper · publican · barkeep · tradesperson · guild · Tudor · Anglo-Saxon
Encroaching without welcome
- Great LakesFive connected inland seas
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- watershedDrainage area boundary
riparian · aquatic · trophic · population · habitat · eutrophication · zooplankton · phytoplankton
Plymouth's founding English colonists
- PuritansEnglish Protestant reformers
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
- PlymouthEnglish port city
settlement · colonists · Mayflower · subsistence · trade · Native American · fertilizer · cornfields
Final amount remaining
- catchSeize or snag
- sustainableAble to endure long-term
- quotaFixed assigned amount
- harvestGathering mature crops
commercial · bycatch · fishing · season · regulations · management · stock · trawler
herring
Small silvery Atlantic fish
- shadCoastal herring variety
- menhadenOily Atlantic baitfish
- anadromousMigrating upstream to breed
spawning · forage · schooling · silvery · baitfish · pelagic · brackish · estuary · plankton · predation
anadromous
Migrating upstream to breed
stream · run · passage · return · annual · life-cycle · breeding · phenology · swim · fish ladder
ale
Warm-fermented malt drink
taproom · innkeeper · publican · barkeep · tradesperson · guild · Tudor · Anglo-Saxon
invasive
Encroaching without welcome
- Great LakesFive connected inland seas
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- biodiversityRange of life forms
watershed · riparian · aquatic · trophic · population · habitat · eutrophication · zooplankton · phytoplankton · limnology
Pilgrims
Plymouth's founding English colonists
- PuritansEnglish Protestant reformers
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
Plymouth · settlement · colonists · Mayflower · subsistence · trade · Native American · fertilizer · cornfields · Wampanoag
net
Final amount remaining
- catchSeize or snag
- sustainableAble to endure long-term
- quotaFixed assigned amount
harvest · commercial · bycatch · fishing · season · regulations · management · stock · trawler · seafood
- fishcod, salmon, bass, perch, eels
- seafoodfish, shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon
- Atlantic fishAtlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, haddock, pollock, pollack
- freshwater fishsalmon, trout, bass, catfish, carp
- freshwater wildlifebeaver, river otter, otter, muskrat, largemouth bass
- old occupationsblacksmith, carpenter, miller, farmer, shepherd
alewifegreat white shark
Largest predatory fish
whale shark · bluefin tuna · marlin · swordfish · sturgeon