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 ...

Summer runs of shad, sockeye salmon, and summer steelhead are drawing big crowds below Bonneville Dam. The upstream movement ...

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 ...

Specifically, American shad, hickory shad, alewife and blueback herring are migratory species that spend most of their lives in saltwater, but must return to freshwater to spawn.

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone River. That might change.

Notably, American shad are an anadromous fish, meaning they spend most of their lives in saltwater, but return to freshwater rivers to spawn and reproduce—like salmon.

The Native American tribes of what would become New England also taught the newcomers the value of eel, salmon, shad and herring as vital sources of nutrition, the latter two of particular benefit ...