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This time each year, shad swim up the Connecticut River, over time depositing billions of fertilized eggs that have kept this species, the largest member of the herring family, coming
Though shad persist, it pays to help promote their remarkable migration any way we can, in the face of new challenges to the fish.
Fish ladders and elevators have improved and increased spawning grounds for American shad.
Earth Matters: When is a trout a salmon and what difference does it make? — Published: 1/2/2021 1:41:10 PM When I was fly fishing for pink salmon some years ago in the Pacific Northwest, I hooked an enormous steelhead, which is a sea-run rainbow trout. That steelhead was twice the size of the five-pound salmon I’d caught, but I wondered why one was called salmon and the other, trout. How do fish get named? For that matter, what about other animals and plants? The biological sciences employ a worldwide army of namers, called taxonomists, who spend their lives categorizing plants and anim...