Ruins would echo the love song of frogs breeding in streams stocked
with alewives, herring, and mussels dropped by seagulls.
Not exact matches
Over the past several weeks, the East End's waterways have been inundated
with toxic red and mahogany tides resulting in die - offs of diamondback terrapin (turtles), bunker and
alewives.
So says Natalie Jeremijenko, a professor of art and computer science at New York University, who has set up an installation in the Bronx River which invites passersby to check in
with the area's «urban nonhumans» — like the
alewife herring, blue crabs, and beaver which frequent that stretch of the river.
Alewives swam back 2 million strong in the first year, along
with striped bass, American eels, and eight other species of fish once native to the Kennebec.
It's home to fish like bluegill and
alewife, along
with smaller organisms like water fleas, algae, and bacteria.
In the writings of early colonists, there were so many salmon, shad,
alewives and other species swimming upriver to spawn that the waters were said to «run silver»
with these fish.
The tribe fished for migrating salmon, sturgeon, and
alewives with nets strung across the rapids of the Merrimack River.