alewives
Small silvery fish
Alewives is the plural of alewife, a small silvery fish related to herring that lives in the Atlantic and spawns in freshwater rivers and lakes.
Alewives have been an important food fish and bait fish in North America: The river was thick with alewives during the spring run.
Separately, alewife is an archaic term for a woman who keeps an alehouse.
Small silvery Atlantic fish
- shadCoastal herring variety
- silveryPale metallic sheen
- schoolingFormal education received
- baitfishSmall prey fish for angling
scales · gills · finned · swimmer · plankton · inland · freshwater · aquatic
Releasing eggs to reproduce
- upstreamToward a river's origin
- anadromousMigrating upstream to breed
- damWater-holding barrier
- passageSegment of text
natal · homeward · breeding-grounds · life-cycle · annual · instinct · obstacles · currents
Of occupied territories
- pilgrimsReligious journey takers
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- saltedTreated with sodium chloride
smoked · dried · barrels · preservation · staple · trade · seasonal · harvest
Arch's central locking stone
- predationHunting and consuming prey
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- bioindicatorSpecies showing ecosystem health
conservation · habitat · zooplankton · phytoplankton · restoration · wildlife · osprey · eagles
herring
Small silvery Atlantic fish
baitfish · scales · gills · finned · swimmer · plankton · inland · freshwater · aquatic · ichthyology
spawning
Releasing eggs to reproduce
- upstreamToward a river's origin
- anadromousMigrating upstream to breed
- damWater-holding barrier
passage · natal · homeward · breeding-grounds · life-cycle · annual · instinct · obstacles · currents · return
colonial
Of occupied territories
- pilgrimsReligious journey takers
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
salted · smoked · dried · barrels · preservation · staple · trade · seasonal · harvest · tradition
keystone
Arch's central locking stone
- predationHunting and consuming prey
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
bioindicator · conservation · habitat · zooplankton · phytoplankton · restoration · wildlife · osprey · eagles
- Brewing HistoryProhibition, Trappist monks, barley wine, steam beer, chicha
- fishing baitworm, worms, nightcrawlers, nightcrawler, live bait