The virus has periodically caused mortality in gizzard shad and muskellunge populations in the Lake St. Clair/Lake Erie/Detroit River system.

Submitted photo A reader sent this photo of dead fish along the shoreline of Lake Milton. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are gizzard shad and were ...

While fishermen covet Lake Erie’s walleye and yellow perch, the hundreds of common and red-breasted mergansers present on this day were after different fishy fare: emerald shiners and gizzard shad.

"There was a lot of anecdotal reports of lots of gizzard shad along the shoreline from those landowners that live along the lake.

Experts have no idea yet what killed thousands of gizzard shad in Oneida Lake last week. The first reports of dead shad washing ashore came on May 24, said Tony VanDeValk, coordinator of the ...

That one preferred blood worms, which isn't the most nutritional food. On the other hand, Sturgio relished a diet of lake smelt, gizzard shad, and rainbow trout.

Coho on southern Lake Michigan and the openers on Monday for smelt netting in Chicago and Heidecke Lake lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

More die-offs of the gizzard shad are likely to be reported as ice melts and carcasses float to the surface.

LAKE MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- Spring's rollercoaster of temperatures from the cold, to record warmth and back to cold affects the fish in our Great Lakes. While spring is a time Michiganders flock ...

Some problematic fish are living and growing in Scott State Fishing Lake. Kansas biologists have confirmed there are gizzard shad in the lake.

He says the gizzard shad either came through natural immigration into the spring-fed lake during the high flow-through event in May 2021 or through unauthorized public stocking.

Fisheries staff indicated that the presence of gizzard shad, Dorosoma cepedianum, in the spring-fed lake has been confirmed. It said 91 gizzard shad averaged 5.7 inches in length during an ...