More: What's biting: get the latest fishing reports here Lambertville is making its final preparations for the annual spring Shad Festival, which takes place on the streets of this quaint Delaware ...

Shad run The deluge had the Delaware River running high, too high in fact to try and make a set for shad, said Steve Meserve at Lewis Fishery at Lambertville. Instead, Meserve kept his net high ...

But other East Coast species — especially shad, bluefish and sea trout — are in serious trouble, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission said at a meeting in Washington.

The DEEP has counted over 198,000 fish so far this season (as of May 14). It's game on for shad fishing! And fishing for shad is going to get even better. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

Those threatened include several fish that, like shad, are important to the Chesapeake Bay: river herring, weakfish, bluefish, Atlantic croaker and summer flounder.

The shad spawn in freshwater rivers, residing there for two years before heading to open ocean for up to five years. Then they swim back to their birth rivers to spawn a new generation before dying.

It will help species including American shad, bluefish, striper and American eel rebound and improve the Hudson, Mohawk, Raritan, Passaic, Hackensack and Bronx rivers, all of which flow into the ...