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Alosa sapidissima, The Shad

Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library


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Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 226. — Lucius luchts, the pike. About one-fifth nat. size. Photo, ofliving animal by Dr. K. W. Shufeldt, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 1899. The shad is a representative of a family — the herringfamily — which has played an important part in the civiliza-tion of Europe. There is an old adage in Holland to the

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 227. —Alosa sapidissima, the shad. After Goode. effect that Amsterdam is built on herring-bones ; and theEmperor Charles V. said that the herring brought greaterwealth to the Netherlands than did America to Spain.Our common shad, Alosa1 sapidissima,2 ranges from New- 1 From Saxon all is, old name of the European shad. 2 Most delicious. 244 ZOOLOGY foundland to Florida.1 Next to the Pacific salmon andcod, it is commercially our most important fish, for thecatch of Atlantic shad for 1896 exceeded one and a halfmillion dollars. The Pacific coast has been successfullystocked with shad from the Atlantic. The Atlantic shad,like the salmon, migrate up streams to deposit their eggs.The alewives have the same habit. The herring, on thecontrary, spawn in the sea. As the common name, alliedto the German Heer, an army, implies, they travel in greatschools. The menhaden, which also occur in great schools,have of late years been destroyed in vast numbers to makefertilizers. The eels are easi


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