| Brewsters, or alewives, would brew in the home for both domestic consumption and small scale commercial sale. |
| Larger salmon eat a variety of fishes such as herring and alewives, smelts, capelin, small mackerel, sand lace, and small cod. |
| In the Great Lakes region, alewives, smelt, sculpin and chubs make up a large portion of the lake trout diet. |
| Fishermen use weirs, traps, gill nets, and dip nets for alewives, which they consider one of the easiest fish to catch. |
| When alewives return to the rivers, they provide abundant forage for resident and sea-run fish, waterbirds, and raptors. |
| Alewives have not seriously been exploited as a fishery in the Great Lakes since these are small and too bony to eat. |
