Watch the shad row…upstream!
Andy Thompson
Mar 27, 2008
I know, I know: Puns are the lowest form of comedy. I couldn’t help myself. Anyway…
Anadromous hickory and American shad are making their yearly run up the James River to spawn, and because of a cool feature on the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Website, you can watch them go. The DGIF has installed a shad cam in the Bosher’s Dam fishway (Bosher’s Dam is the one you can see from the Willey Bridge over the James).
Here’s a link to info about the DGIF’s efforts to restore shad populations in Virginia.
http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/shad-restoration/
Shad can be seen swimming upstream to spawn on the DGIF’s shad cam.


Mar. 28, 2008 at 08:42 PM
Andy, DiscoverRichmond.com has more on the fishway and Bosher Dam:
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/video/jamesriver.html
http://www.discoverrichmond.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_DRMGArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354407768&path;=!attractions&parentid=1137836330564