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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anglers had a picture perfect morning Thursday on the Delaware River for the start of the Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest. According to contest organizer Eric Fistler, more than 900 fishing enthusiasts ...

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 ...

Every few minutes, an angler standing waist deep Wednesday in the frigid American River would holler, “YAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA!” and his buddies would laugh. The angler would lean back, his rod bowed as his ...

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 ...

Something bright flashed near the surface of the murky James River. Will McCahill swung at it with a net and caught a piece of living history. "Gentlemen, this is what it's all about," said boating ...

Call it a poor man’s salmon. Every year from February to June, the American shad run like 20-inch silver bullets up the east coast, pouring in from the Atlantic and swimming up rivers from Florida to ...

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've never forgotten my first shad fishing adventure, even though it took place nearly 40 years ago. I remember that I had no clue what I was doing and I didn't come close to catching a fish. But as a ...