Every spring, American shad and hickory shad leave the ocean to return to their places of birth, ... October 8, 2023. John Kelly. He survived 9/11. Now he helps others touched by disaster.

Newly born shad, still attached to their egg sacks, are being stocked in the Taunton River, allowing them to gain an “imprint on the unique characteristics of the river,” MassWildlife said.

Over the past four decades, the American shad population in Virginia — specifically the James River — collapsed. Humans are largely to blame. Dams, pollution, commercial fishing bycatch, water ...

In the past 20 years, about $9 million in federal, state, local and private money has been spent to bring back shad in the James. With shad numbers low and little to show for the construction of ...

Shad had much less to do with food than pure sport. These fish bring a saltwater fight to inland rivers. They make light-tackle drags scream, and much of the program is simple. American shad stop ...

American shad, a type of herring native to the East Coast, are thriving in local rivers and showing up in Puget Sound in "unprecedented numbers," according to a state biologist.

Now, American shad are causing the most trouble for fish ladders in the region, she said. “They kind of chill out. They don’t necessarily go all the way out of our ladder and then they spawn.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Many areas in this country have icon species that add richness to the sense of place, but dams built in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1700s ...