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 ...

American shad are anadromous, meaning they hatch into fry in freshwater like the Delaware, live into adulthood in the ocean then return to the river of their origin to spawn. The spawning run up ...

Image An American shad is weighed before it is scaled and cleaned at the fishery.Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times “From a historical perspective, the river is quite clean,” said ...

PEOPLE ABOUT AND WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. I’M OUT IN THE RIVER JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY ON TOP OF ENJOYING THE SIGHTS. CARL BLY IS USUALLY FISHING OUT THINGS OTHERS LOST IN THEIR TRAVELS ALONG ...

It’s a non-native fish competing for space: the American shad. At Lower Granite Dam on the Lower Snake River in southeastern Washington, American shad hang out in the fish ladder. A few years ...

IT’S RIGHT NEXT TO THE AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY. IT’S CALLED THE AMERICAN RIVER ONE PROJECT. IT WOULD BE BUILT ON BURKHARDT DRIVE. THAT’S NORTH OF RICHARDS BOULEVARD. IT’S THE LOT THAT USED ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WTOL 11 Meteorologist Matt Willoughby got a first-hand experience Tuesday on what it's like to fish for walleye by taking a boat out onto the Maumee River with a local expert. Jared Noe ...

SACRAMENTO — A project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to mitigate flood risk along the American River is receiving pushback from a community group called American River Trees "We ...