. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE HERRING AND ITS ALLIES. 199 on fish identical with the Shad of England, Chtpeafinta. The first to give to it a distinctive name was Alexander Wilson in the American edition of Rees' THE EUROPEAN" SHAD. It is very closely allied to the European species, but is a much finer fish. The English care little for their shad, though in France the same species is highly esteemed. The following account of our Shad
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE HERRING AND ITS ALLIES. 199 on fish identical with the Shad of England, Chtpeafinta. The first to give to it a distinctive name was Alexander Wilson in the American edition of Rees' THE EUROPEAN" SHAD. It is very closely allied to the European species, but is a much finer fish. The English care little for their shad, though in France the same species is highly esteemed. The following account of our Shad is from the pen of Col. Marshall MacDonald, who has made it a subject of special study for many years : The Shad is found along the whole Atlantic coast of the United States, and its capture constitutes one of the most important fisheries in all the streams draining into the Atlantic between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. John's River, Florida. It is but rarely seen on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, but occurs in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the various rivers of which it ascends as tar north as the Miramichi, which seems to be its limit in that direction, none having been seen in the Bay of Chaleur. Throughout its entire range the Shad is found in sufficient quantities to give rise to fisheries of great commercial value. There is no run of Shad in any of the rivers draining into the Gulf of Mexico, although the capture of isolated individuals of this species has been reported from the Ala- bama River and from .several tributaries of the Mississippi prior to any steps towards the artificial propagation of Shad in these waters by the United States Fish Commission. The geographical range of the Shad then was confined to the Atlantic- coast of the United States until, by the operations of the United States Fish Commission, its limits were vastly extended. Runs of Shad, suf- ficiently large to be of commercial value, have been established in several of the tributaries of th
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