138 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Alosa sapidissima (Wilson). 
Shad. 
Reported to have been seen occasionally in the tide-water of 
Cedar Swamp Creek near Petersburg. Usually every spring a 
few are taken in the pounds at Green Creek in Cape May county. 
They occur in the pounds from Cape May Point to Dennis Creek, 
at least, but few are taken at a time, usually 4 or 5. They have 
been brought in at Higbee’s Beach, Fishing, Green and Dias 
Creeks, according to Mr. Hand. Several were taken late in May 
and early June of 1907, in the pounds at Green Creek. 
Shad fishing at Pennsville, in Salem county, during the past 
season has been reported prosperous, some fishermen having 
claimed as much as $800.00 for their catch, and the same is said 
for others at various river towns. The number of fish has not 
been remarkable. The lowest price received this season was 
$19.00 per hundred, and the highest $60.00, with an average of 
about $40.00. The fishermen estimate from 1,500 to 3,000 caught 
by each individual. 
In Great Egg Harbor Bay it was rather scarce during the past 
season. It was noted at Beesley’s Point and the Tuckahoe River 
in its lower tide-water, also Somers Point and the lower Great 
Ege Harbor River, and apparently not ascending as far as 
herring. 
Mr. J. B. Vanderveer reports that the largest shad under his 
observation taken in the Delaware, a little above Trenton, weighed 
3 pounds, 2 ounces. He also notices that in the spring run all 
examined contained food in their stomachs. When spent the 
shad, like the chub, was found to be weak. They would drift 
down with the tide, and sometimes when they would be carried 
into an incoming tide at Trenton and not having strength to 
resist it, though with the impulse, would die. They were then 
found sometimes in numbers. At times fungus diseases would 
break out, though equally rare at others. 
