| Downstream, residents still stretch traditional weirs to catch gaspereau on the Southwest Margaree and farm the fertile bottomlands. |
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| The delayed migration of the gaspereau in the river was the latest recorded. |
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| In 1995 and 1997, about half the gaspereau were counted at the index trapnets after June 20, the regular closing date of the fishery. |
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| Once inside the trap, the gaspereau swim in circles trying to avoid the leader and fail to locate the open doors. |
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| Historically, the harvest peaked in 1988, and has declined precipitously since, largely due to the decreased abundance of gaspereau. |
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| In late May and early June, canoeing the Southeast Margaree is not advisable as gaspereau fishermen set a number of fish traps along the river. |
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| The reported harvest of gaspereau has increased slightly since the early 1980s and has averaged about 1,500 t in the last five years. |
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| There are anecdotal reports of rivers where gaspereau runs have disappeared after periods of intensive fishing, but the extent to which overfishing may have caused local extirpations is unknown. |
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| The gaspereau stock of the Margaree River is currently at low abundance. |
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| The gaspereau fishery of the lower tributaries of the Saint John River has been below its long-term mean catch for over 20 years and current biological data indicate that the stock is heavily fished. |
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| Fisheries officials remain concerned that the introduction of smallmouthed bass in Lake Ainslie will negatively affect native populations of brook trout, gaspereau and landlocked salmon. |
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| Prince Edward Island eels, gaspereau, silversides, and smelts. |
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| The run of gaspereau in 1995 and 1996 was also later than in the 1980s as observed at the DFO index trapnets in the Southwest and Northwest branches of the Miramichi. |
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| In 1974, a fishery was established to reduce fishway use conflicts between gaspereau and early run Atlantic salmon and to reduce costs of fish transport upriver. |
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| Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack. |
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| Cod, haddock, pollack, herring, flatfish, shark, shad, sturgeon, gaspereau, salmon, and striped bass make annual migrations into the Bay of Fundy to feed. |
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| Norman Ravvin's new novel is The Joyful Child, from Gaspereau Press. |
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| She is currently a Creative Writing instructor at Dalhousie University, and her first novel The Lightning Field was published in the autumn with Gaspereau Press. |
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| In Canada, for example, small operations like Gaspereau Press and Doug Minett's Bookshelf in Guelph survive in the face of competition by conglomerates and big-box stores. |
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| Angered by their crime and their calamity, I drafted Execution Poems in two weeks And Gaspereau Press sentenced it As a big, black book, a folio, two-feet long, One-foot wide. |
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