ESSEX -- There are more than 700 bones in the average adult American shad, but when Dorothy Miller Goss is done boning one, the leftover filet is as tender and bone free as could be hoped for. "I've ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shad is a fairly healthy fish that's low in mercury and high in omega-3 fatty acids and can be delicious if prepared the right way ...

Call it a poor man’s salmon. Every year from February to June, the American shad run like 20-inch silver bullets up the east coast, pouring in from the Atlantic and swimming up rivers from Florida to ...

Shad - Is it the tofu of the sea? Not known as a delicious fish by itself, some people resort to mixing it with other ingredients to make it more palatable. In recent years at Shad Fest in ...

I had to be tall enough to wear hip boots. That was the rule, and from the time I was 4 until my 8-year-old legs met the criteria, that rule really pissed me off. I’d sit on the basement steps while ...