rainbow smelt

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Noun	1.	rainbow smelt - common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska American smelt Osmerus mordax, rainbow smelt - important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska smelt - small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
	2.	rainbow smelt - important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska Osmerus mordax smelt - small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters genus Osmerus, Osmerus - type genus of the Osmeridae American smelt, rainbow smelt - common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska

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One of the biggest threats to the charr is the presence of invasive rainbow smelt, a species of small fish that competes with charr for food and are suspected of eating charr's young.

Scientists hope DNA in water could be way to save rare fish

Mature fish feed heavily on other fish, with rainbow smelt being their preferred food.

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Current threats to Cisco populations include nutrient-induced eutrophication, competition with invasive species like Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax), warming summer water temperature and extended thermal stratification, and overharvesting (Latta, 1995; Hrabik, et al, 1998; Stockwell et al, 2009; Jacobson et al., 2012).

Evidence for Migratory Spawning Behavior by Morphologically Distinct Cisco (Coregonus artedi) from a Small Inland Lake

Saffron cod (95% FO) and rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax, (55% FO) were most prevalent, followed by sculpins (9% FO).

Diet of beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, in Alaska from stomach contents, March-November

She was interested in understanding how invasive rainbow smelt were affecting the ecology of lakes and mercury levels in predatory fish, such as lake trout, walleye and northern pike.

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Among specific topics are the postglacial recolonization and the loss of anadromy in rainbow smelt from coastal Newfoundland, planning the management of Pacific salmon in a changing climate, modeling larval migration routes and spawning areas of Anguillid eels of New Zealand and Australia, detecting marine nutrient and organic matter inputs into multiple trophic levels in streams of Atlantic Canada and France, the status of diodromous fish species in the restored East Hammar Marsh in southern Iraq, and socio-economic and bio-political linkages in the management of tropical shad.

Challeges for diadromous fishes in a dynamic global environment; proceedings

About the time the fish are done spawning, rainbow smelt, gizzard shad, alewives, and several species of shiners come to these same areas on their respective spawning runs.

Down in the mouth: great lakes postspawn pattern: it's a well-known facts that in spring, when temperatures of the rivers that feed the great lakes rise into the low 40[degrees]F range, especially as a full moon shows overhead, hordes of migrant walleyes make a mad dash up their warming waters to procreate. But few anglers understand where these big-water rogues go, once the spawn is spent

Balcher (1983) found that young rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) prefer copepods to cladocerans, locating cladocerans from a similar distance to copepods but avoiding attacks on the spiny cladoceran forms.

Feeding of 0+ smelt Osmerus eperlanus in Lake Peipsi/0+ peipsi tindi Osmerus eperlanus toitumine Peipsi jarves

masquinongy) in three, largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in two, redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) in two, lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in two, brown trout (Salmo trutta) in two, rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in one, flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) in one, and other salmonids in one.

Changes in fish assemblages in Michigan lakes since the 1950s

Several studies, across broad taxonomic orders have demonstrated similar deviations from proportionality in the OS-FS relationship (e.g., flatfish (Rhombosolea tapirina and Ammotretis rostratus) [Jenkins, 1987], rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) [Sirois et al., 1998], and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) [Otterlei et al., 2002]), which were also associated with life-stage transitions.

Modification of the biological intercept model to account for ontogenetic effects in laboratory-reared delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) *

To take another example, several species of cisco, which were already depressed by the mid twentieth century by overfishing, were then dealt the final blow by three exotic species--the parasitic sea lamprey, a predator, and the alewife and rainbow smelt, competitors.