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Hickory shad

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(Zool.) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
The gizzard shad.
the mattowacca.

See also: Hickory Hickory Shad



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One of their primary concerns regarding the health of the river was the decline of migratory fish stocks, such as American shad, hickory shad, blueback herring, and striped bass that were once so plentiful in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Byline: Conrad Grove Philadelphia Inquirer The fishing would not kick in for hours, but the anglers were jockeying for the few parking places along a top-shelf stretch of Deer Creek, intent on intercepting the thousands of hickory shad making their three-mile spring spawning run after fattening in the Atlantic Ocean.
 
 
 
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