Alosa served as the focal point of John McPhee's book "The Founding Fish". The roe, or more properly the entire engorged uterus of the American shad—filled with ripening eggs, sautéed in clarified butter and garnished with parsley and a slice of lemon—is considered a great delicacy, and commands high prices when available. Alosa Alosa is a genus of fish, the river herrings, in the family Clupeidae. Along with other genera in the subfamily Alosinae, they are generally known as shads. They are distinct from other herrings by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers. Several species can be found on
Cisco (fish) Cisco (fish) The ciscoes (or "ciscos") are salmonid fish of the genus "Coregonus" that differ from other members of the genus in having upper and lower jaws of approximately equal length and high gill raker counts. These species have been the focus of much study recently, as researchers have sought to determine the relationships among species that appear to have evolved very recently. The term "cisco" is also specifically used of the North American species "Coregonus artedi", also known as lake herring. In previous taxonomic classifications, the ciscoes have been identified as a subgenus "Leucichthys" of the genus "Coregonus". Based