Habitat Suitability Index Models: Alewife and blueback herring
FWS/OBS
82/10.58
By: Garland B. Pardue
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Abstract
Alewives and blueback herring are anadromous clupeids found along the Atlantic coast in marine, estuarine, and riverine habitats, depending upon life stage. Both are important commercial species, used fresh or salted for human consumption, and used as crab bait, fish meal (particularly in animal food manufacturing), and fish oil. Alewife and blueback herring are marketed collectively as 'river herring,' a term that will be used for both species in this report. River herring play important ecological roles. In marine, estuarine, and riverine food webs, they occupy a level between zooplankton, their principal food, and piscivores.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Federal Government Series |
| Title | Habitat Suitability Index Models: Alewife and blueback herring |
| Series title | FWS/OBS |
| Series number | 82/10.58 |
| Subseries | Habitat Suitability Index |
| Year Published | 1983 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Contributing office(s) | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Description | vi, 22 p. |
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