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LAMBERTVILLE — American shad are running but they’re not landing in the Lewis Fishery’s nets this week because the weather’s not cooperating.
The American shad's Latin name is clue to its allure: Alosa sapadissima, or most delicious herring. American shad were a key food source for American Indians and later, colonists.
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. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close.
Fishing for hickory and white (American) shad has been a rite of spring for centuries in mid-Atlantic country. In our area the locus of shad fishing is the Susquehanna River complex, which ...
Once severely depleted, American shad – the fish that fed the nation’s founders – are finally making a comeback in the Chesapeake Bay. Their return so far has been uneven, though. Spawning ...
An underrated type of seafood, shad is a fish that's tender but bony. Here's the best way to cook it to bring out its rich ...
Anglers fishing for American shad on the Delaware and other Mid-Atlantic region rivers have encountered a “sticky” situation this spring as some of the fish they’re catching are filled with ...
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 ...
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.
So is the shad. 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.
Anglers fishing for American shad on the Delaware and other Mid-Atlantic region rivers have encountered a “sticky” situation this spring as some of the fish they’re catching are filled with ...