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. Shad are known for the great fights that ...

Anglers chase American shad in the Delaware River, Thursday, April 20, 2023, during day one of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest at Phillipsburg-Easton.Get Photo Anglers chase American shad in the ...

When it comes to American shad in the Delaware River, there are only two things that are guaranteed: The fish are going to make their annual migratory spawning run up river each spring, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. That’s the goal behind a new MassWidlife ...

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 ...

According to the Holyoke Gas & Electric Robert E. Barrett Fishway, more than 3,000 shad went through the Holyoke Fish Lift recorded between April 22nd and April 29th. Over the past 10 years, 5.5 ...

The influx of shad into the warming tidal tributaries along the Atlantic seaboard will soon lure anglers to the shores of the Susquehanna River in Maryland and the lower Potomac River in Washington, D ...

Most years, Eric Fistler is pretty pumped as the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest approaches. By now, he’s putting the finishing touches on getting ready for the tournament, and registrations are rolling ...

Kevin Job spent much of his youth fishing in the Shetucket River in Greeneville. Job, now a biologist at the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, embarked last week from the Marine ...