A true sign of spring in Chesapeake Country, the American and hickory shad run is off to a great start throughout much of these anadromous fishes spawning range. Usually, hickories show up in the ...

American shad like these two are the reward for anglers ... Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers as more fish in the 8 to 15 lb. range appear in the catches. “The stripers have been really biting ...

The shad, on the other hand, don’t visit like they used to. American shad are native from northern Florida through Nova Scotia. Any river that meets the ocean within that range has—or had—an annual ...

Anglers fishing for American shad on the Delaware and other Mid-Atlantic region rivers have encountered a “sticky” situation this spring as some of the fish they’re catching are filled with ...

As time passes, Virginians are further and further removed from a time when American shad were culturally and economically relevant.

Duke Energy constructs shad passage and eel ladder to reintroduce migratory species to waterways they once called home ...

But in the Potomac River, the American shad is making a comeback. It may seem like another in a long list of protected species — but along the East Coast, a ban on fishing American shad affects ...

It’s well documented that the American shad that ascend the Delaware River each spring to spawn are a species of concern. The population is down significantly from where it was just a few ...

The main non-profit spearheading the work, Brandywine Shad 2020, wants to restore the creek as spawning habitat for the American Shad (Alosa sapidissima), which is an anadromous fish, meaning it lives ...

I had just caught a fish, the American shad, that I would spend thousands of hours pursuing for the rest of my life. I had hooked a shad — but that first shad also had hooked me. Since that time ...

Now, shad runs are only a shadow of what they used to be. Several shad species occur in Georgia, but only two — American shad and hickory shad — are suitable as food. Of the two, American shad ...