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 ...

Here we are restoring the American shad (Alosa sapidissima) to the Connecticut River. The dams in MA built in the late 1700s extirpated shad from the upper valley. The comeback of the American shad is ...

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 ...

Something bright flashed near the surface of the murky James River. Will McCahill swung ... The prize was an American shad -- probably the most important fish you've never seen.

Since then, the feisty fish have migrated from saltwater every year to spawn in the American and other Central Valley rivers. In addition to the Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A fish ladder will be open to the public to watch American Shad migrate upstream this Sunday. The Westfield River Watershed Association (WRWA) expects hundreds ...

For all the disappointment over the failure of the salmon restoration program, the American shad has benefited from work done by the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission, including the ...

For decades American shad have been one of Western Massachusetts’ signature fish, flooding the Connecticut River in the spring when they head upstream from the Atlantic Ocean to spawn.

Shad were first introduced to the West Coast from the Hudson River in New York in 1871. American shad like these two are the reward for anglers fishing the American and Sacramento rivers in May ...