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 ...

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 ...

From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring. Their annual spawning run from far out in the Atlantic is historically significant: it provided a ...

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 ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Many areas in this country have icon species that add richness to the sense of place, but dams built in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1700s ...

Spring is American shad season in Connecticut. Decades ago, the number of shad returning to the Connecticut River ran into the tens of thousands. In recent years the numbers have dwindled at an ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...

As the organizer of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest, and an avid American shad fisherman, Eric Fistler spends much of his free time in spring taking part in shad-related activities on the Delaware ...

Delaware Sea Grant’s Ed Hale has been conducting seine net surveys of Wilmington’s Brandywine Creek every two weeks since mid-July, engaged by a coalition of groups supporting the removal of the ...