Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 ** Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811) . American Shad . To 76 cm ( 30 in ) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Native to Atlantic Ocean; intentionally introduced to Pacific Ocean, spread to Kamchatka , Russia to south-eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía de Todos Santos, northern Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Depth: surface to 250 m ( 820 ft ) ( Allen and Smith 1988 ). While there are a few other, deeper, records (e.g., 440 m , 1,443 ft , Bradburn et al. 2011 ; 646 m , 2,119 ft , 881 m , 2,890 ft , and 1,151 m , 3,885 ft , NWFSC-FRAM), all are from bottom trawls and the fish could have entered the nets in the water column as the net were being deployed or retrieved. Anadromous.