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US
/mɛnˈheɪdən/
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NOUN
- shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
How To Use menhaden In A Sentence
- These larger animals include the great schools of fish, such as tuna, menhaden, cod and mackerel, which we catch for food.
- (Left) The pungent corpses of Gulf menhaden fish, also called commercial pogy, rot in the sunlight along a one-mile stretch of Sea Rim Park on Wednesday, August 10, 2005. Archive 2005-08-01
- Native Americans' name for menhaden was "munnawhatteaug" -- a word meaning fertilizer, biologists say. In Va., the lowly menhaden loses out to striped bass
- Conversation stopped as Shemsen and the mermen each snatched a menhaden meal.
- None of these small fish species -- menhaden, alewives and blueback herring -- have the widespread appeal of your average humpback whale or giant panda, but they do happen to sit near the bottom of the food chain. Peter Hanlon: Little Fish, Big Help
- Like tuna and salmon, menhaden contain high levels of omega - 3 fatty acids.
- Frigatebirds feed primarily on flying fish (Cypselurus, Exocoetus), but will also take menhaden, squid or jellyfish.
- Transient species that move in and out of the estuary include spot, pinfish, menhaden, flounder, white and striped mullet, and red drum (the official mascot of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve). North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
- The NRDC is spearheading an effort to get river herring (shorthand here for blueback herring and alewife) listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, while the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) showed overwhelming support for new efforts to protect and rebuild the decimated menhaden stock. Peter Hanlon: Little Fish, Big Help
- These larger animals include the great schools of fish, such as tuna, menhaden, cod and mackerel, which we catch for food.