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 ...

Bill Whitaker saddles up for one of the last enduring symbols of the Old West, a Wyoming cattle drive that travels the same ...

The Delaware River towns—including, Frenchtown, and Stockton—are easily accessible from both New York City and Philadelphia ...

Borussia Dortmund are undergoing coaching changes ahead of the 2025/26 season. As reported by Ruhr Nachrichten, Shad Forsythe ...

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

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.

More than 400 producers and industry representatives from over 20 states gathered in Deadwood, South Dakota, last week for the 2025 R-CALF USA National Convention, with several thousand more ...

Shad make their return Unlike eel, shad are picky about their migration routes. “The eel ladder is simple and runs on its own, so you don’t need a person on-site to operate it,” Abney said. “American ...

The American shad is an anadromous species, meaning it begins its life in freshwater rivers along the East Coast and then migrates to the ocean.

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.

An American shad is netted April 19, 2016, after being caught on the Delaware River by Eric Fistler, organizer of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest. The 2025 edition is scheduled for April 24-27 ...