Shad
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SHAD, the name given to certain migratory species of herrings (Clupea), which are distinguished from the herrings proper by the total absence of teeth in the jaws.
Shad
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
fish, Alosa sapidissima, of the family Clupeidae (herring family), found along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Florida and successfully introduced on the Pacific coast.
Shad
The shads or river herrings comprise the genus Alosa, fishes related to herring in the family Clupeidae. They are distinct from others in that family by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers.
Young shad spend their first summer in the river feeding on insects and crustaceans. They swim near the bottom in water as deep as 3.7-4.9 m (12-16 ft), but at night they are found near the surface.
American shad feed on plankton—mainly copepods, amphipods, shrimp, and mysids—and occasionally on small fishes. Feeding ceases during upstream spawning migration and resumes post-spawning during the downstream migration.
American shad are typically found offshore except during late winter spawning run into east coast rivers, notably the St. Johns River.
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Threadfin Shad (Dorosoma petenense)
Description Dorosoma is Greek for "lance body", referring to the lance-like shape of young shad. The word petenense refers to Lake Peten in the Yucatan, the species type locality.
Food
Shad and crayfish are consumed in lakes; and crayfish and minnows in streams. In streams, smallmouth can be very aggressive when hellgrammites and terrestrial insects are available.
The Alabama shad is classified as a member of the order Clupeiformes (Herrings) and is a member of the family Clupeidae.
No sooner do the shad and old-wives enter the bays and rivers of our Middle Districts, than this Gull begins to shew itself on the coast, following these fishes as if dependent upon them for support, which however is not the case, ...
Like its parents, the hybrid frequents the open water portions of a lake, feeding almost exclusively on gizzard shad or other pelagic fishes. Hybrids are more tolerant of warmer water and lower dissolved oxygen than striped bass.
Related Species Hickory Shad (A. mediocris) with dorsal profile almost straight, well-rounded ventrally; lower jaw projects well beyond upper; occurs in similar habitat from Maine to St. Johns River, Florida.
Habitat Bays, estuaries, and fresh water.
This nocturnal forager uses vegetated wetlands to ambush small fish (carp, eel, minnows, shad, and shiners), crayfish, fiddler crabs, small snakes, mice, rats, chicks of other wading birds, insects (beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, and dragonflies), ...
Anadromous fish (fish that spawn in freshwater and then spend their adult lives in the sea) include lampreys, sturgeons, shad, herring, salmon, trout, and striped bass.
March through May are the best months, but they are caught year round. Use cut bait, shad, shrimp or cut shad.
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Also known as - Toothed Herring, River Whitefish, Shad.
General Description
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swallowed by animals to aid digestion and break down food and hard fibres once they enter the stomach. When found in association with fossils, gizzard stones are called gastroliths.[75] Gizzard stones are also found in some fish (mullets, mud shad, ...
Both species occupy rather open water, often near the surface. Adults feed on zooplankton, aquatic insects and small fish. Gizzard shad are important forage in large rivers. Individual fish may travel more than 100 miles in their seasonal movements.
MacLean, G. Spencer); two discovered in Amherst Point Bird Sanctuary on 11 November 1978 (C. Desplanque) and seen by others in following weeks; one on the Halifax West Christmas Bird Count on 23 December 1975 (D. Gray); and one photographed at Shad ...
 See also: Herring, Sunfish, Catfish, Bass, Perch
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