शाद की तरह उत्तरी अमेरिकी समुद्री मछलियों का उपयोग मछली के भोजन और तेल और उर्वरक के लिए किया जाता है

Noun:

खाद और बहुमूल्य तेल पैदा करनेवाली मछली,

menhaden's Usage Examples:

Next in importance were the catches of menhaden, shad, clams, squeteague and alewives; while minor catches were made of crabs, croaker, bluefish, butterfish, catfish, perch and spotted and striped bass.

The waters of the Chesapeake Bay are especially rich in oysters and crabs, and there, also, shad, alewives, " striped " (commonly called " rock ") bass, menhaden, white perch and weak-fish (" sea-trout ") occur in large numbers.

Menhaden are caught in much larger quantities in New York than any other fish, but being too bony for food they are used only in the manufacture of oil and fertilizer.

The average size of the menhaden is about 12 in.

Its scientific name is Clupea (or Alosa) menhaden and Brevoortia tyrannus.

MENHADEN, economically one of the most important fishes of the United States, known by a great number of local names, "menhaden" and "mossbunker" being those most generally in use.

Peckham, but others have held that it is of exclusively animal origin, a view supported by such occurrences as those in the orthoceratities of the Trenton limestone, and by the experiments of C. Engler, who obtained a liquid like crude petroleum by the distillation of menhaden (fish) oil.

The fisheries are chiefly of shad, oysters, mullet, alewives, clams, black bass, menhaden, croakers and bluefish.

Large numbers of shad, blue fish, weak fish (squeteague), alewives, Spanish mackerel, perch, bass, croakers (Micropogon undulatus), mullet, menhaden, oysters and clams are caught in the sounds, in the lower courses of the rivers flowing into them, or in the neighbouring waters of the sea.

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menhaden's Meaning':

shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer

Synonyms:

clupeid, Brevoortia, Brevoortia tyrannis, clupeid fish, genus Brevoortia, menhaden oil,

Antonyms:

spiny-finned fish,