Author: (Borodin, 1904)
FBname: Caspian marine shad
Comments: Occurs in brackish water and non-anadromous, but strongly migratory.  Feeds on small clupeids, gobies, atherines, also crustaceans and occasionally insects and mollusks.  Spawning patterns among the subspecies vary but occur mostly in spring and summer after an inshore migration and movement northward.