When it comes to fish restoration in New England, salmon have been the poster child for so long that it’s easy to forget there are other species facing the same problems. The federal fish hatchery in ...

BEGINNING soon after New Year’s Day at the St. John’s River in Florida, multitudes of shad veer shoreward from the sea, and as spring advances, they enter the estuaries of Georgia, the Carolines, the ...

More than 70 years ago, a 14-year-old Jim Fearson took an after-school job at a little gas station on the Virginia side of Chain Bridge. Each spring, the river below would fill with shad on their ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...

It’s shad fishing time in Massachusetts, home of the current world record. From Massachusetts to North Carolina, the core of their range, shad provide extraordinary fishing from April through June in ...