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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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TUE ELKUlEAN SUAD. 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 speciesis highly esteemed. The following account of our Shad is from the pen of Col. MarshallMacDonald, 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 thestreams draining into the Atlantic between the Gulf of St. Lawrence andthe St. Johns River, Florida. It is but rarely seen on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, but occurs inthe Gulf of St. Lawrence, the various rivers of which it ascends as farnorth as the Miramichi, which seems to be its limit in that direction, nonehaving been seen in the Bay of Chaleur. Throughout its entire range the Shad is found in sufficient quantities togive rise to fisheries of great commercial value. There is no run of Shadin any of the rivers dra
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