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A shad bake, also called a shad roast or shad planking, is a culinary tradition found on the east coast of the United States, particularly associated with the state of Connecticut. Typically occurring
The American shad, Alosa sapidissima
American shad
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The American shad is a species of anadromous clupeid fish naturally distributed on the North American coast of the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Florida, and as an introduced species on the Nor
Shad bake
…Connecticut. Typically occurring in the springtime (when the shad are swimming upriver to spawn and thus are the most available), it consists of nailing American shad fillets to planks of wood and baking them around an open pit fire. Shad bakes are typically large community-wide events, with some featuring live music…
Dentonshad 1904
Harbor seal in freshwater Connecticut River, following the shad run
An American shad is measured during a survey at the Holyoke Dam fish ladder, circa 1970
Early 19th-century shad fishing on the Peedee (Greater Pee Dee) River, South Carolina