{"id":321,"date":"2012-05-03T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/shad-state-affairs\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:35:08","slug":"shad-state-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/shad-state-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shad State of Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/shad_fishladder.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo: Emma Lee\/NewsWorks<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two shad posts in a row? It&rsquo;s a shad shad shad shad world. [<em>Please make the shad puns stop. Thanks\u2014ed<\/em>.] As the peak of the shad spawning season arrives, WHYY&rsquo;s NewsWorks has a very informative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/homepage-feature\/item\/37865-shad-spawning-entering-peak-at-fairmount-fish-ladder&amp;Itemid=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> (and great photos) about the Fairmount fish ladder, including interviews with PWD aquatic biologists Lance Butler and Joe Perillo:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Historically, the shad traveled as far as 90 miles upriver from Philadelphia, past Pottsville, Pa., in the Schuylkill River system to spawn. In colonial times, shad dominated the Schuylkill&rsquo;s ecosystem and shaped life in Philadelphia. &#8220;Many families relied on the protein of shad to get them through the winter. They would salt barrels of shad, and that was their primary protein source,&#8221; Perillo said. Industrial pollution and the construction of dams eventually depleted the shad population. With the Clean Water Act in the 1970s, a trickle started to return, but the Fairmount Dam blocked their way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A quick note on shad and colonial times: Many sources mention that George Washington fed his troops shad from the Schuylkill River during the Revolutionary War. A previous post from last year\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillywatersheds.org\/weve-been-shad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We&#8217;ve Been Shad<\/a> (that was a pre-existing shad pun and is therefore not a punishable offense, right?)\u2014calls this item into question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the peak of the shad spawning season arrives, WHYY&rsquo;s NewsWorks has a very informative article (and great photos) about the Fairmount fish ladder, including interviews with PWD aquatic biologists Lance Butler and Joe Perillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,83],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-environmental-stewardship","tag-schuylkill-river","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/shad-state-affairs\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Shad State of Affairs","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/shad-state-affairs\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/shad-state-affairs\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Nature","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["environmental stewardship","schuylkill river"],"dateCreated":"2012-05-03T15:48:00Z","datePublished":"2012-05-03T15:48:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-10T16:35:08Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"A Shad State of Affairs\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/shad-state-affairs\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/shad-state-affairs\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Nature\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"environmental stewardship\",\"schuylkill river\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2012-05-03T15:48:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-03T15:48:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-10T16:35:08Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}