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Scientific name: Alosa aestivalis (Mitchill, 1814)
Preferred common name: blueback herring
Other common names: blueback shad, river herring
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae

• 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