Assertion: alewife | /r/HasProperty | fish
Facets:
value: mainly
type: DEGREE
value: for lobster bait
type: PURPOSE
value: these days
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The alewife, of the species Alosa, is a fish belonging to the herring species, and is also known as the sawbelly, gaspereau, and kiack.
text: Alewives are the fish the Native Americans in New England buried with crops as fertilizer (Grosvenor, 1965).
text: It is mainly fished for lobster bait these days, so
text: Detection of a small population of Blueback Herring in Lake Ontario would be difficult because of the size of the Lake relative to the area routinely sampled and the herring's superficial similarity with Alewife, a fish sampled in large enough numbers that only a fraction of the adults are examined closely enough to distinguish between the two species (Owens et al. 1998).
text: (1998) also asserted that colonizing a lake with resident population of Alewife, a fish that would be in direct competition with Blueback Herring for space and resources, and a surfeit of piscivores, both stocked and unstocked, may prove too difficult for A. aestivalis.
text: Detection of a small population of Blueback Herring in Lake Ontario would be difficult because of the size of the Lake relative to the area routinely sampled and the herring's superficial similarity with Alewife, a fish sampled in large enough numbers that only a fraction of the adults are examined closely enough to distinguish between the two species (Owens et al. 1998).
text: (1998) also asserted that colonizing a lake with resident population of Alewife, a fish that would be in direct competition with Blueback Herring for space and resources, and a surfeit of piscivores, both stocked and unstocked, may prove too difficult for A. aestivalis.
text: Alewives are the fish the Native Americans in New England buried with crops as fertilizer (Grosvenor, 1965).