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Length, thirty inches. Color, back, blue; sides, silvery.

The body of the Shad is deeper and the mouth larger than that of the Alewife.

All of the Clupea species are excellent foodfishes.

Length, fifteen inches. Color, back, bluish; sides, silvery.

With the exception of a long appendix from the last ray of the back fin, the Hickory or Mud Shad is similar to the Shad.