Description: Back dark blue/gray, sides silvery, belly white; small head.
Where Found: In salt water from Cape Cod to Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico.
Size: Up to 16″.
Remarks: Has scales on ridge of back before dorsal fin.
Atlantic Thread Herring
Description: Back dark blue/gray, sides silvery, belly white; small head.
Where Found: In salt water from Cape Cod to Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico.
Size: Up to 16″.
Remarks: Has scales on ridge of back before dorsal fin.
