Jay Fleming Photography

Susquehanna River Shad Run circa 1900 (photo: Maryland DNR Fish Passage)

electro-shocking for Hickory Shad broodstock, Susquehanna River

gill netting American Shad broodstock, Potomac River

‘roe’ American Shad, Alosa sapidissima

strip spawning American Shad

implanting hormone in Hickory Shad to induce spawning

Hickory Shad spawning in hatchery tank

American Shad eggs

American Shad larvae

15 day old American Shad fry

30 day old Hickory Shad fry

45 day old Hickory Shad fry

30 day old American Shad fry

90 day old American Shad (length:7.5 cm)

inserting coated wire tag (CWT) into juvenile American Shad

stocking CWT juvenile American Shad on the Choptank River, MD

scale from a Susquehanna River Hickory Shad, 9 year old female with 5 return spawn annuli

reading American Shad otoliths

night electro-fishing for juvenile shad, Choptank River, MD

Juvenile Seine Survey, Tuckahoe River, MD

juvenile American Shad (length: 9 CM) caught during seine survey

Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrhynchus caught in the Potomac River circa 1900 (Photo: Library of Congress)

One day old Atlantic Sturgeon larvae

Six day old Atlantic Sturgeon larvae

21 day old Atlantic Sturgeon fry (length: 2.5 CM)

juvenile Atlantic Sturgeon

Extracting sperm from 42 kilogram wild Atlantic Sturgeon

Atlantic Sturgeon egg hatching jars and larval tanks

Atlantic Menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (length: 12.5 CM)

Young of the Year Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis (length: 8.6 CM)

Hogchoker, Trinectes maculatus (length: 6 CM)

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