What is an alewife?

1. Are alewives good eating?
2. What is alewife meaning?
3. What are alewives used for?
4. What type of animal is an alewife?
5. What does alewife taste like?
6. How did alewife get to the Great Lakes?
7. What does alewife look like?
8. Do alewife have teeth?
9. How big do alewives get?
10. What is an alewife in medieval times?
11. How do you spell Alewife?

Are alewives good eating?

Ospreys, bald eagles, cormorants and great blue herons prey heavily on migrating alewives each spring, at a time when some of these birds are nesting and rearing their chicks.

What is alewife meaning?

Definition of alewife

(Entry 1 of 2) : a woman who keeps an alehouse.

What are alewives used for?

Alewife is the preferred bait for lobstermen. Helping the alewife will help local lobstermen by providing them with fresh, cheap and better quality bait. Rivers and lakes with alewife and blueback herring tend to grow larger sport fish like smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, trout and landlocked salmon.

What type of animal is an alewife?

alewife, also called sawbelly, grayback, gaspereau, or branch herring, (Pomolobus, or Alosa, pseudoharengus), important North American food fish of the herring family, Clupeidae. Deeper-bodied than the true herring, the alewife has a pronounced saw-edge on the underside; it grows to about 30 cm (1 foot).

What does alewife taste like?

They taste like mackerel. They're great on the grill but they're best fried.” Leviton opted to fry his alewives. He dredged them in heavy cream mixed with egg yolks to increase the stickiness for breading, so the fine fish bones would melt during pan frying.

How did alewife get to the Great Lakes?

The alewife, a pelagic planktivore native to the Atlantic Ocean, entered the Great Lakes through canals. First seen in Lake Ontario in 1873, and bypassing Niagara Falls through the Welland Canal, the species became widespread in the basin by 1960.

What does alewife look like?

Alewives have an overall silvery color with a grayish green back. A black spot at the eye level is directly behind the head. Adults have longitudinal lines that run along the midline of the body. Small alewives have a violet sheen on the sides while adults have a golden cast on their heads and upper parts.

Do alewife have teeth?

The lack of teeth on the roof of the mouth distinguishes the alewife, with its brethren the hickory shad (p. 100) and blueback (p. 106) from the sea herring, anatomically.

How big do alewives get?

The alewife is a thin, silver fish with grayish-green back, smooth scales and large eyes. A single dark shoulder spot located behind the head appears on fish greater than 3.9 inches long. Adults grow to 15 inches and weigh less than one pound. Females are bigger than males.

What is an alewife in medieval times?

Alewife, also brewess or brewster, is a historical term for a woman who brewed ale for commercial sale.

How do you spell Alewife?

noun, plural ale·wives. a North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus, resembling a small shad.