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shad
noun
Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; .
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From a pair of flat-screen televisions a henna-bearded hajji lectures, finger wagging and face set stern, before a superimposed backdrop of Mecca.The steam-table holds delights: butterfish and shad in a herb gravy, tandoori chicken the colour of fire trucks, bony hunks of goat, samosas, pakoras, other fried delicacies I can't identify.
Opening up the dam will allow the Penobscot to flow freely from Old Town to the ocean for the first time in generations, which will make the journey easier for the salmon and ten other migratory fish, including alewives, shad, sturgeon and blue-black herring.America's north-east has a fragmented river system, with seven dams interrupting every 100 miles of river.
Ms Talbot teams up with a young man she calls Shad.
The largest and most valuable, C. clupeaformis of the Great Lakes region, is known by such other names as Lake Superior whitefish, whiting, and shad.
Common saltwater varieties include bluefish, pompano, flounder, mackerel, mullet, trout, redfish, snappers, groupers, snook, sailfish, tarpon, shad, weakfish, bonefish, marlins, and sharks.
As a rule, migrations are oriented by the sea currents near the spawning grounds, but the fish go as well with or against the current direction; four forms of the Caspian shad are known to move against currents.
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The performer was an itinerant shad-boner named Pomeranz.
PROFILE of Harry Lyons, a "riverman" of Edgewater, a former fireman who, even during his tenure as a firefighter was permitted to take time out for shad-fishing every spring.
I'm sorry to see @MichaelDugher has left the Shadow Cabinet - although he never once recognised the UK brass band supremacy of @Coryband Really sorry to see @MichaelDugher leave Shad Cab.
Featured sidemen during those years included legendary jazz players such as pianist Bennie Payne, saxophonists Chu Berry and Ike Quebec, trombonist-vibraphonist Tyree Glenn, drummer Cozy Cole, and trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Jonah Jones, and Shad Collins.
Illustrated text: The McGreevey brothers, Eddie and Nate, on the day Eddie decided to wear his pants longer... Shad Finneran, catcher, struck in the stomach….
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