shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
Important North American food fish (Pomolobus, or Alosa, pseudoharengus) of the herring family. The alewife grows to about 1 ft (30 cm). Most populations spend several years along North America's Atlantic coast before ascending freshwater streams to spawn each spring in ponds or sluggish rivers