Herring/Shad

Links

• American Shad
• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission - Menhaden
• Discover Magazine: "The Most Important Fish in the Sea "
• Ecological Role Of Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia Tyrranus) In Chesapeake Bay And Implications For Management Of The Fishery (1998 Masters thesis)
• Historic Atlantic Coast Shad Migration
• Mattaponi Fish Hatchery ("shad shack")
• Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrranus )
• Multistate Aquatic Resources Information System (MARIS)
• Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
• Wildlife Mapping experts:
  • Anadramous Fish Questions and Answers
• North American Native Fishes Association
• Native Fish Conservancy
• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
  • management plans
  • species
  • publications
• Fish distribution maps from the Texas Natural History Collection - TNHC North American Freshwater Fishes Index Images, Maps and Information:
  • Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
  • Blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis)
  • Gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum)
  • Hickory shad (Alosa mediocris)
• Reedville Fishermen's Museum (Northumberland County)
• VIMS-Fisheries (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
• Freshwater Fish at Risk in the U.S. (from Scientific American)
• Freshwater Fish Farming in Virginia (Virginia Cooperative Extension Publication Number 420-010)
  • Locations of Government and Private, Commercial Fish Hatcheries in Virginia
• Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation
  • Forage Fish (especially menhaden)
  • A bioenergetics approach for determining the effect of increased striped bass population on its prey and health in the Chesapeake Bay