Re: Juvenile Shad Return to Ocean to Perpetuate Stock
It is hard for me to believe that they are placed in a live well and later released. I ran that same show for years. We counted every one, measured the lengths of a subsample. If you looked at them cross-eyed, they were dead. Very fragile juvenile fish. At the Delaware Water Gap, we got in to trouble for dumping a pile of dead shadlings in the brush at the shoreline. After that we always took the load out to the middle of the river to dump. I used some as bait. It always bothered me that they all died.
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