A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

a small silver-colored fish that is not native to Lake Erie.

flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

a food fish of the herring family that is very abundant on the Atlantic coast; the alewife entered the Great Lakes through the Welland Canal in the 1940s and frequently die-off in large numbers because they are not well adapted to life in freshwater. See also: Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus

a food fish belonging to the herring family.

A small silver-colored fish that is not native to the Great Lakes.