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, water ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a new way to study really small fish. They've designed a tag that's about the size of a grain of ...

NORTHFIELD — The operator of hydroelectric stations on the Connecticut River has reached an agreement that could protect fish habitat and restore migrations of American shad, river herring, sea ...

Anglers have long used different environmental phenomena to mark the onset of their sporting seasons. For example, many fishermen maintain that when eastern North Carolina’s ubiquitous dogwoods begin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another Bi-State Shad Fishing Contest is drawing to a close on the banks of the Delaware River, the Lehigh Valley’s annual contribution to the wide, wide world of American shad fishing. Twenty-five ...