. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. THE in RRING AND ITS ALLIES. 399 on fish identical with the Shad of England, Cliipea fiiita. The first to give to it a distinctive name was Alexander AN'ilson in the American edition of Rees' Tin; KlliOl'KAN fillAl). It is very closely allied to the EurojKMn species, but is a much finer fisli. The English care little for their shad, though in France the same species is highly estee
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. THE in RRING AND ITS ALLIES. 399 on fish identical with the Shad of England, Cliipea fiiita. The first to give to it a distinctive name was Alexander AN'ilson in the American edition of Rees' Tin; KlliOl'KAN fillAl). It is very closely allied to the EurojKMn species, but is a much finer fisli. 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 s])ecial 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. Eawrence 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 whicli it ascends as far 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 (piantities 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- l)ama River and from several tributaries of the Mississipi)i ]M-ior 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 estab
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