Gradually declining alewife abundance along with the alewives' shift, during the spring, to the lake's deeper waters likely contributed to increased natural reproduction among lake trout.
(Gradually declining alewife abundance along with the alewives' shift, during the spring, to the lake's deeper waters; likely contributed; to increased natural reproduction among lake trout)
Gradually declining alewife abundance along with the alewives' shift, during the spring, to the lake's deeper waters
likely contributed
to increased natural reproduction among lake trout