Assertion: alewife | /r/HasProperty | important species
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: with 4000-year-old alewife bones
type: OTHER
value: for raccoons
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for river otters
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Alewife is a very important species in the history of biological invasions in the Great Lakes.
text: Alewife are also an important food source for raccoons and river otters (which are slowly repopulating Long Island) where they can be caught from the shoreline.
text: The alewife is an important forage fish for a number of popular gamefish species.
text: The alewife is an important forage species found along the coast from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas.
text: Alewives have been an important source of food since the beginning of human settlement in New England, with 4000-year-old alewife bones identified from middens (Watts 2012).
text: Alewife is a very important species in the history of biological invasions in the Great Lakes.
text: The herring, alewife, and American Shad and their offspring are an important food source to support the larger recreational saltwater fish sought by sports fishermen off Rhode Island's coastline.