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shad
herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
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Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus, alewife
shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
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Brevoortia tyrannis, menhaden
shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
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Clupea harangus, herring
commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
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sardine
any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
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Sardina pilchardus, pilchard, sardine
small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
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Alosa sapidissima, common American shad
shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
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Alosa chrysocloris, river shad
shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima
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Alosa alosa, allice, allice shad, allis, allis shad
European shad
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Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus harengus
important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic
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Clupea harengus pallasii, Pacific herring
important food fish of the northern Pacific
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sild
any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
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Clupea sprattus, brisling, sprat
small herring processed like a sardine
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Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea
small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America
