American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . the most important species inhabiting thefresh waters of North America. Among all the economic fishes of theUnited States only the cod and the Chinook salmon exceed it in 1896 the shad catch of the Atlantic seaboard numbered 19,145,395fish, weighing 50,847,967 pounds, and worth to the fishermen$1,656,580. Head 4^; depth 3; D. 15; A. 21; scales 60; ventral scutes 21 + comparatively deep; mouth ra
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . the most important species inhabiting thefresh waters of North America. Among all the economic fishes of theUnited States only the cod and the Chinook salmon exceed it in 1896 the shad catch of the Atlantic seaboard numbered 19,145,395fish, weighing 50,847,967 pounds, and worth to the fishermen$1,656,580. Head 4^; depth 3; D. 15; A. 21; scales 60; ventral scutes 21 + comparatively deep; mouth rather large, the jaws about equal,the lower fitting into a notch in the tip of the upper; gillrakersextremely long and numerous, usually about 40+68, the total varyingfrom 93 to 119; fins small, the dorsal much nearer the snout than baseof caudal; peritoneum white. Colour, bluish above, sides silverywhite; a dark spot behind opercle, and sometimes several along the 107 Alabama Shad line dividing the colour of the back from that of the side, these evidentwhen the scales are off; axil dusky. The shad reaches a length of 2to 2^ feet, though the average weight is less than 4 Alabama ShadAlosa alabanice Jordan & Evermann In the Black Warrior River of Alabama, about Pensacola, anddoubtless in other rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, is found aspecies of shad resembling the common shad but differing from it innot having nearly so many gillrakers, in having a sharper, morepointed snout, smaller notch in the upper jaw, more projectingmandible, and more slender maxillary. It also reaches maturity at aconsiderably smaller size than the common shad, the various examplesseen measuring only 15 inches each in total length. Nothing is known of its habits except that it appears at Tusca-loosa, Alabama, in limited numbers early in April, and that the younghave been seen in salt water at Pensacola. GENUS BREVOORTIA GILLThe Menhadens Body elliptical, compressed, deepest anteriorly, ta
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