IDENTIFICATION
This well known angling fish is elongate with an overall silvery sheen with light green/blue tinge on the dorsal surface and upper flanks.

DISTRIBUTION
Although shad occur in warm waters throughout the world, the South African population is separate from these, and South Africans have the sole responsibility of looking after the shad stock found along the eastern seaboard of our country.Tagging of shad has shown that they migrate from the cool waters of the Western and Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal each winter. The shad migration follows that of their main prey - sardines - during the annual