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n. - Shad.

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  • Latitudinal variation in reproductive characteristics of American shad (Alosa sapidissima): evidence for population specific life history strategies in fish.
  • The American shad (Alosa sapidissima) wasn't widely recognized as a gamefish until lauded as the "poor man's salmon" by the legendary outdoor writer Frank Forester in 1849.
  • In the Connecticut River watershed, the alewife floater (Anodonta implicata) relies on anadromous fishes, American shad (Alosa sapidissima), alewife (Alosa...
  • The principal fish dependent on this teeming life are eel Anguilla anguilla, mullets Mugil cephalus and M. ramada, sole Solea solea, sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax, barbel...
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