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Scientific name: Alosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)
- Blueback Herring USGS Fact Sheet (pdf file 141 KB)
NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species - Blueback herring: Life History and Habitat Needs - Fact Sheet(pdf; file size: 106 KB)
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission - Blueback Herring (web page)
By Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder
FISHERY BULLETIN 74
FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Volume 53
[Contribution No. 592, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE - Washington: 1953 - Blueback Herring - Alosa aestivalis (pdf file 145 KB)
From Fishbase
1973 - Fish Facts Alewife and Blueback Herring (pdf file 101 KB)
Maryland DNR - Fisheries Service - Blueback Herring Fact Sheet (pdf file 298 KB)
Maine DMR - Bluebacks & Alewives - Detailed (pdf file 266 KB)
NOAA Species of Special Concern - Blueback Herring & Alewives Life Histories (pdf file 1.4 MB)
USFWS
1983
Preferred common name: blueback herring
Other common names: blueback shad, river herring
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae
