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2. Skipjack shad - Wikipedia

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   The skipjack herring (Alosa chrysochloris) is a North American, migratory, fresh- and brackish water fish species in the herring family Alosidae. [3] The name skipjack shad comes from the fact that it is commonly seen leaping out of the water while feeding. [4] Other common names include blue herring, golden shad, river shad, Tennessee tarpon ...

3. Coregonus artedi - Wikipedia

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   Binomial name. Coregonus artedi. Lesueur, 1818. Coregonus artedi, commonly known as the cisco, is a North American species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. The number of species and definition of species limits in North American ciscoes is a matter of debate. Accordingly, Coregonus artedi may refer either in a narrow sense to ...

4. Alewife (fish) - Wikipedia

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   Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811) School of alewife. Station of alewife. The alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus; pl.: alewives[4]) is an anadromous species of herring found in North America. It is one of the "typical" North American shads, attributed to the subgenus Pomolobus of the genus Alosa. [5] As an adult it is a marine species found in ...

5. Blueback herring - Wikipedia

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   Blueback herring. The blueback herring, blueback shad, or summer shad (Alosa aestivalis) is an anadromous species of herring from the east coast of North America, with a range from Nova Scotia to Florida. Blueback herring form schools and are believed to migrate offshore to overwinter near the bottom. These fish are silvery in color, have a ...

6. Cisco (fish) - Wikipedia

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   Coregoninae. Genus: Coregonus (in part) The ciscoes (or ciscos) are salmonid fish that differ from other members of the genus Coregonus in having upper and lower jaws of approximately equal length and high gill raker counts. These species have been the focus of much study recently, as researchers have sought to determine the relationships among ...

7. Pacific herring - Wikipedia

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   The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin. The distribution is widely along the California coast from Baja California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea; in Asia ...