The once-abundant American shad, along with river herring, have plummeted to levels considered depleted, according to new ...

Pawpaws and persimmons are rare, delicate delights in season right now. Here's where to find them around Philly. Plus, your ...

As salmon and steelhead swim upstream, they’re now facing one more challenge in fish ladders. It’s a non-native fish competing for space: the American shad. At Lower Granite Dam on the Lower Snake ...

The fish are a critical food source for larger fish like striped bass, as well as bears, raptors, cormorants and gulls.

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 ...

Many areas in this country have iconic species that add to the sense of place for the people who live there. The Texas Gulf Coast is busy working to restore the iconic Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Here ...

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 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 ...

Catching American shad on the flooded waters of the Delaware River is a daunting task. Boat ramps are under water, debris is floating everywhere and water currents are extremely dangerous. However, a ...

The silvery fish leaped out of the clear water and surged on one last run. It was Memorial Day 1969 and the first time that I had ever fished for or hooked a shad. I was using a light spinning rod ...