Potomac River sees rise in returning shad, driving up Bay-wide abundance trend

Cleaner water is the cornerstone of shad recovery in the river.

By Catherine Krikstan |
One of the last shad-netting companies on the Delaware River harvests the fish in 2013. (Photo courtesy of MTSOfan/Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, cropped and toned)
A 3,500-gallon spawning tank is part of the operation at the Nanticoke Shad Hatchery in Sussex County, Del., on April 26, 2013. (Photo by Steve Droter/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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