Lehigh Valley Live

Delaware River shad tournament returns for 2025, with no repeat winners in 13 years

It’s not easy to win the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest as evidenced by the fact that the tournament started in 2011 has never had a repeat winner. However, that doesn’t stop American shad angling ...
The New York Times

One Family’s Relentless Pursuit of the Bony, Oily, Elusive Shad

To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving. By William Falk The sun was sinking behind the western bank of the ...
WHYY

In the Delaware River, climate change and invasive species threaten shad, ‘America’s founding fish’

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! American shad were a major food source for early European settlers and Native ...
Lehigh Valley Live

Delaware River shad fishing contest opens, with big payday on the line (PHOTOS)

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...
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These fish once fed George Washington’s troops. Now, American shad levels are ‘not sustainable’ in the Delaware River.

American shad have long been prized in the Delaware River Basin for their meat and roe. The native Lenape people hosted festivals celebrating the fish. In 1778, legend has it, George Washington’s ...
The Times Leader

Delaware Sees Scads Of Shad

MILFORD – Like aliens from some foreign port, American shad have invaded the Delaware River. Each year hundreds of thousands of shad averaging about 4 pounds each migrate up the 330-mile river that ...