HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts state wildlife biologists are participating in an ongoing study of the American shad — a fish that spends more of its life in the ocean, but returns to fresh water ...

In late July, researchers caught juvenile and adult fish just upstream of where the West Street Dam was removed by the City of Wilmington in 2019. Scientists fishing in the Brandywine Creek, at the ...

Fads come and go, but Columbia River shad fishing is here to stay and in a very big way. “Shad counts are starting to hit a thousand per day, and a check (Wednesday) had 10 (anglers) with 51 shad kept ...

Numbers of American shad migrating up the Connecticut River to spawn this spring have crashed, with the run likely to be the smallest in three decades. American shad are iconic in Connecticut, ...

CONOWINGO — It’s rush hour on the Susquehanna River. American shad, eager to complete their 1,000-mile commute from the Atlantic Ocean, are swimming up the Chesapeake Bay’s largest tributary in ...

It’s time to get serious about American shad. These feisty fish are a great choice for shaking the summer doldrums, being readily available along more than 150 miles of the lower Columbia and Snake ...

It’s an age-old feud which money, technology and even sex failed to mute – dams and American Shad just don’t get along. For decades on the Lehigh River, men have hauled shad over the dams, coaxed them ...

A migration that’s covered several thousand miles is ending, but the fun is just beginning for fly fishermen and ultralight tackle anglers. The annual spawning run of the American shad has begun in ...

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 ...

Spring returns of alewife and shad are a bit early this year. The short but intensely warm period last week pushed freshwater streams closer to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. That's the magic water ...

The rains and melting snows have raised havoc with the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s trout stocking schedules, particularly in the mountain counties. “We’re operating of a day-by-day basis,” ...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts state wildlife biologists are participating in an ongoing study of the American shad — a fish that spends more of its life in the ocean, but returns to fresh water to spawn ...