Alewives — a small, silver fish also known as river herring — are usually sold to lobstermen to be used as bait. They spend most of their time in the ocean but travel upriver to lakes and ...

Alewives — a small, silver fish also known as river herring — are usually sold to lobstermen for use as bait. They spend most of their time in the ocean, but travel upriver to lakes and ponds ...

Alewife fishing can't begin until 250,000 fish have made it over the dam for spawning. Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans. ... Hayes took frozen blocks of pogie, a bait fish, ...

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Stocking of trout and salmon in 2019 will still exceed 2.7 million fish Alewife decline behind stocking reduction by 20 percent Due to a diminishing population of bait fish, stocking of Chinook ...

The spring of 2010 our DNR discovered while conducting their annual shocking program that the bait fish were actually Alewife Herring rather than Bluebacks.

Noting the bony nature of the fish and its more common use as a bait fish, Clement doubts the veracity — or at least totality — of the story. Still, the alewife figured prominently in Colonial ...

The appearance of alewives in Lily Lake is to blame for the decline of the bluegill population. SLOCUM TWP. — A diminutive bait fish is to blame for the decline of huge bluegills in Lily Lake.

The most commonly caught species in Alewife Brook are yellow perch, pumpkinseed and largemouth bass, and the suggested fishing period is between May to October. Things you need to know ...

S ome fish stay in the same cozy bodies of water all year long. Others, like the alewife, a fish found in the waters of the Northern Atlantic Ocean, migrate between different areas to spawn and ...