Emerald Shiner (Noun)
Meaning
Small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The aquarium exhibit featured a large tank with an abundance of emerald shiner fish, which quickly swam back and forth upon the opening of feeding time.
- Because emerald shiners form a critical component of their diets, small predators must strategically stalk these and similar shoals during an hour centered at noon in productive sandy parts.
- Observing minnow catches are significantly richer during hot morning emerald shiner chasing opportunities using black streamer size spinner-flies imitators targeting many fine rainbow dolly areas!
- Like typical smaller clupeoids like European, Allis shads, American fall, & striped Great Lakes' herring, juvenile inland silversides emerald shiner, & river herring, can even have their growth rates strongly influenced when their lake or estuary becomes affected by increasing anthropogenic eutrophication and related stress!
- From emerald shiners up to several lake herring, round whitefish, & occasional smaller pike, the nets collected samples reflecting diverse aquatic life within this portion of western Lake Huron.