shad †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a north American food fish, Alosa sapidissima, of the Atlantic Coast.

Quotations

1774

They caught . . . forty barrels of fish, which they call chad, and which they sell for four dollars per barrel, of thirty-two gallons. . . .

1866

The Shad . . . can barely be classed among the game fish of the country, for they are chiefly taken in "brush fisheries."

1962

Shad are caught in the nets when the tide is in.