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Shad primarily feed on zooplankton (animal constituent of plankton) early in their life history, while larger shad feed on both zooplankton and phytoplankton (algae).

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 ...

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While shad are by far the most abundant, in 2022 the ladder also recorded 283 blueback herring, 311 striped bass, 22,233 sea lamprey, 63 gizzard shad and 20 shortnose sturgeon, which are endangered.

The long-lasting winter of 2018 — and the mild winters that preceded it — led to a large die-off of gizzard shad fish around the state’s waterways.

Called "the poor man's salmon," shad was eaten in part because the species is anadromous — they are born in fresh water, migrate to live in the oceans, then return to the rivers to spawn.