We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Shad is a fairly healthy fish that's low in mercury and high in omega-3 fatty acids and can be delicious if prepared the right way. We talked ...

American shad have long been prized in the Delaware River Basin for their meat and roe. The native Lenape people hosted festivals celebrating the fish. In 1778, legend has it, George Washington’s ...

Heat butter and olive oil in a large, heavy frying pan until just smoking. (Cast iron is nice.) Season a pile of flour to taste with salt and pepper. Dredge roe through the mixture and lay gently in ...

The annual migration of shad to rivers in the East is reaching its peak, which means that one of spring's delicacies, shad roe, is abundant. These inexhaustible fish migrate at this time of year into ...

George Washington shad here? Indeed! Not only is this migrating Atlantic herring credited with saving the troops at Valley Forge from starvation, G.W.'s commercial shad catch in 1771 totaled nearly ...

Outside the Oyster Bar, at Grand Central, a giddy sign announces the news that sends many food lovers into a tizzy every spring: SHAD IS HERE! The roe is the delicacy gourmets go nuts for. Its tiny ...

MILFORD – Like aliens from some foreign port, American shad have invaded the Delaware River. Each year hundreds of thousands of shad averaging about 4 pounds each migrate up the 330-mile river that ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

A lot of people don't know that types of fish have a season -- just like tomatoes, peaches and other landlubber food. But George Streblow, the owner of Sea Products on West End Boulevard, knows. And ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X You know it’s spring in tidewater Maryland when, along with forsythia, blooming cherry trees and ...

You know it’s spring in tidewater Maryland when, along with forsythia, blooming cherry trees and butter-colored daffodils, the American shad — Alosa sapidissima — course up the Chesapeake Bay from ...