Between 1967 and 2020, the CDFW’s Fall Midwater Trawl abundance indices for striped bass, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, American shad, Sacramento splittail and threadfin Shad have declined by 99.7 ...

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 ...

Several environmental groups are petitioning the federal government to add the Alabama shad to the U.S. Endangered Species List, saying the once-popular commercial fish has disappeared from 90% of ...

To learn more about Walker’s strategies for catching Tennessee River bass all day during a shad spawn, check out Pt. 2 of our Shad Spawn 101 series here.