Even more pronounced is the drop in blueback herring, a type of river herring.

Aging of hickory shad and blueback herring in Georgia by the scale method.

Forty years later, striped bass and blueback herring, flourish, along with 900 species of plants and animals.

Alewife and blueback herring were once caught in this river with nets and used for consumption.

On Long Island, apparently, so do the blueback herring and the enormous striped bass that feed on them.

The Landsman Kill has numerous spawning runs of smelt, alewife, and blueback herring.

Another fish is the alewife and its cousin, the blueback herring, collectively known as river herring or simply herring.

The deal is also expected to help shad, alewives, shortnose sturgeon, blueback herring, tomcod and rainbow smelt.

Species of primary concern include American shadalewife, blueback herring, Atlantic salmon and American eel.

Other fish include the blueback herring, the brown bullhead, the chain pickerel, the smallmouth bass, the white perch, and the white sucker.

Alosa aestivalis (blueback herring)

Alewives and blueback herring are labeled as river herring for management purposes due to their similar physical appearances and being harvested together.

Besides the prized shad and salmon, they include alewife, blueback herring, sea-run brown trout and sea lamprey.

Especially abundant are anadromous alewife, blueback herring and American shad and semi-anadromous white and yellow perch.

But they succeeded in scaring clupeids - widely found fish in the herring family that include alewives, American shad and blueback herring.

Deal lake is a fresh water lake, but is "unique" because it has spawning saltwater fish, including alewives, blueback herring and gizzard shad.

The blueback herring is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Species of Concern.

The blueback shad or blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alosa.

A comparison of diets of blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) and threadfin shad (Dorosoma petenense) in a large southeastern reservoir.

This was first discovered by fisheries biologists studying a type of shad known as blueback herring, and was later verified in laboratory studies of hearing in American shad.

The annual fish migration, as both alewife and blueback herring swim upstream from their adult home in the sea to spawn in the fresh water where they were hatched, still occurs every spring.

After I had sampled the fishing long enough to consider putting my rod down, I tried netting for bait some of the blueback herring that ascend the river from the ocean in vast schools.

Anadromous species, which include salmon, shad, alewives, blueback herring and sea-run brown trout, hatch in fresh water, spend their adult lives at sea and then return to their birth streams to spawn.

The lower river is filled with migratory fish that only come into the area in the spring to spawn such as American shad, hickory shad, alewife herring, blueback herring, and striped bass.

In its first commercial application, Fish Startle was used last spring to scare away migrating shad, blueback herring and alewives from blasting in the Boston harbor, where a third road tunnel is under construction.

The blueback shad or blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alosa.

A comparison of diets of blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) and threadfin shad (Dorosoma petenense) in a large southeastern reservoir.

The blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) is an anadromous species of herring from the east coast of North America from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to the St. John's River in Florida.