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  • Latitudinal variation in reproductive characteristics of American shad (Alosa sapidissima): evidence for population specific life history strategies in fish.

    Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

  • Latitudinal variation in reproductive characteristics of American shad (Alosa sapidissima): evidence for population specific life history strategies in fish.

    Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

  • In the Connecticut River watershed, the alewife floater (Anodonta implicata) relies on anadromous fishes, American shad (Alosa sapidissima), alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), as hosts.

    Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009

  • The principal fish dependent on this teeming life are eel Anguilla anguilla, mullets Mugil cephalus and M. ramada, sole Solea solea, sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax, barbel Barbus barbus, shad Alosa fallax and anchovy Engraulis encrasicholus.

    Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

  • The American shad (Alosa sapidissima) wasn't widely recognized as a gamefish until lauded as the "poor man's salmon" by the legendary outdoor writer Frank Forester in 1849.

    Field and Stream Guide: The American Shad 2004

  • Hickory shad (Alosa mediocris) Grifton builds its annual festival around these fish, which are anadromous, meaning they live in the sea but enter freshwater to spawn.

    WN.com - Articles related to Wildlife Expo kicks off spring tourism in SC 2010

  • Alosa felt his team had some of its swagger when the game started, but Portsmouth's hot start quickly extinguished that.

    unknown title 2009

  • "All year defense has kept us in games and tonight I think the 'D' did a pretty good job, I just don't think we finished on the break and we didn't finish the shots we normally make," Alosa said.

    unknown title 2009

  • "If you don't make shots in an environment like this, against a team like this, you are not going to win the game," Alosa said.

    unknown title 2009

  • Cattabriga-Alosa once again stole the show, winning Best Male Performance in Under The Influence (Teton Gravity Research), in which he combined technical Alaska lines with Wyoming powder.

    broadbandsports.com - 2009

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