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🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreAmerican gizzard shad A silvery freshwater forage fish with a muscular gizzard.Herring · Rivers and lakes

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAlewife A small North American herring that migrates between sea and rivers.Herring · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreMenhaden Small silver forage fish that filter plankton and support marine food webs.Herring · Coasts and shelves

WorldSpotted sardinella A small herring with golden spots found in the Indo-Pacific.Herring · Coasts and shelves

WorldBloch's gizzard shad Small anadromous fish found across the Indo-West Pacific.Herring · Rivers and lakes · 1795

🇮🇳 India and 3 moreIndian river shad A shad found in rivers and flooded fields across South Asia.Herring · Rivers and lakes

Southeast AsiaWhite sardine Small tropical clupeid fish of the Indo-Pacific.Herring · Coasts and shelves · 1847

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

American gizzard shad: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Alewife: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Menhaden: Thomas William Smillie, Public domain, source
Spotted sardinella: Gihan Jayaweera, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Bloch's gizzard shad: C. Achilles, Public domain, source
Indian river shad: C. Achilles, Public domain, source
White sardine: Hariprasad Shetty10, CC0, source

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