Of all the fish that swim in the sea, few are as easy to catch as shad. That's because you don't have to go to sea to catch them. Each spring they come barreling back to the rivers where they were ...

It’s not fishable or swimmable yet, but according to the Potomac Conservancy, the Potomac River earned a grade of “B” for the fifth year in a row. At a news conference overlooking the Potomac River at ...

Spring came to the Potomac last week. The big river finally dropped to a manageable level and cleared up after nearly a month of roaring, muddy floods. Forsythias and daffodils bloomed bright yellow ...

There was a release party Thursday on the Potomac River, attended by Westbrook Elementary School students, teachers, parents, friends — and hundreds of shad fry.Students from the Bethesda school have ...

The story of how fifth graders at Westbrook Elementary school in Bethesda, Maryland, became one of the first groups of elementary student to take part in the Chesapeake Bay Program's project to ...

COLUMBIA, Pa. -- Once, American shad swam up Atlantic coastal rivers in huge masses each spring, when instinct -- or some inner compass -- lured them by the millions from the ocean to their ancestral ...