How to Use alewife in a Sentence

alewife

noun
  • That marked the end of the alewife run up to Highland Lake.
    James Prosek, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • But dams and other changes to the land cut the fish off from many lakes, which became alewife-free.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
  • Dead alewife fish pile up on Lake Michigan shores in rare die-off.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
  • The alewife crash started around 2003, but few noticed it at first.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The alewife is a member of the herring family native to the Atlantic Ocean.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
  • Lake Michigan became overwhelmed with the small, silvery alewife.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
  • At opposite ends of a block on Flatbush Avenue, a sea turtle and an alewife herring are trying to hail a taxi.
    Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2021
  • That allowed another invader, the alewife, to soar in numbers.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022
  • Without lake trout to feed on the alewife—a small river herring—the invasive fish’s population exploded throughout the lakes.
    Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • That restoration effort sputtered for decades — until the alewife population started to fade.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Forward-looking fisheries scientists decided to try stocking non-native salmon and trout in the lake to help reduce the over-abundant alewife population.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But When the alewife population collapsed, native walleye started reproducing in the wild.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The protection order worked as expected; alewife numbers rebounded.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In the 1960s, biologists audaciously began stocking the Great Lakes with Pacific salmon to destroy an Atlantic alewife infestation — and build a multibillion-dollar recreational fishery.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • That marked the end of the alewife run up to Highland Lake.
    James Prosek, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • But dams and other changes to the land cut the fish off from many lakes, which became alewife-free.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
  • Dead alewife fish pile up on Lake Michigan shores in rare die-off.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
  • The alewife crash started around 2003, but few noticed it at first.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The alewife is a member of the herring family native to the Atlantic Ocean.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
  • Lake Michigan became overwhelmed with the small, silvery alewife.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
  • At opposite ends of a block on Flatbush Avenue, a sea turtle and an alewife herring are trying to hail a taxi.
    Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2021
  • That allowed another invader, the alewife, to soar in numbers.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022
  • Without lake trout to feed on the alewife—a small river herring—the invasive fish’s population exploded throughout the lakes.
    Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • That restoration effort sputtered for decades — until the alewife population started to fade.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Forward-looking fisheries scientists decided to try stocking non-native salmon and trout in the lake to help reduce the over-abundant alewife population.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But When the alewife population collapsed, native walleye started reproducing in the wild.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The protection order worked as expected; alewife numbers rebounded.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In the 1960s, biologists audaciously began stocking the Great Lakes with Pacific salmon to destroy an Atlantic alewife infestation — and build a multibillion-dollar recreational fishery.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021

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