The closure of the fishery is in accordance with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Shad and River Herring Plan.
The people from Rutgers have been working their butts off trying to get tiny radio transmitters in the shad to determine their movements. The Moritorium had nothing to do with NJ or Rutgers, it is a National agreement.
Hopefully one day soon we will have lots and lots of shad agian in the Raritan river, till then people will be working very hard to remove dams and keep the water clean.
http://www.raritan.rutgers.edu/
