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Anglers chase American shad in the Delaware River on Thursday, April 20, 2023, during day one of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest at Phillipsburg-Easton.

Every spring, American shad and hickory shad leave the ocean to return to their places of birth, swimming up Atlantic tributaries from Newfoundland to Florida to spawn.

American shad are anadromous, meaning they hatch into fry in freshwater like the Delaware, live into adulthood in the ocean then return to the river of their origin to spawn.

This American shad was netted April 19, 2016, on the Delaware River by Eric Fistler, organizer of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest, while fishing with friend Jack Adams.

The American shad is one of the most popular and yet most mysterious fish that anglers pursue on California’s Central Valley rivers in the spring.

The prize was an American shad -- probably the most important fish you've never seen. The shad, which migrates from the sea to freshwater rivers in the spring to spawn, once fed hungry Indians and ...

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.

American shad are an anadromous fish; hence they spend most of their lives in saltwater but return and spawn in freshwater. Shad habitat extends along the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to Florida.

A fish ladder will be open to the public to watch American Shad migrate upstream this Sunday.