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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. They caught 25 that day ...

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.

SACRAMENTO – 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.

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.

American shad — fish that migrate from oceans to rivers every spring to spawn — are making a comeback in New England’s longest coastal river without dams.

Registration opened for the 2024 Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest scheduled April 25-28 on the Delaware River at Phillipsburg. ... When it comes to American shad in the Delaware River, ...

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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.

SACRAMENTO – 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.