Shad Bake
Personal memory by Sara Cashen
1993 • New York, NY, USA
I remember meeting Everett Nack, Hudson River shad fisherman, as he talked about the spring shad harvest along the Hudson River and served grilled American Shad at the Columbia Land Conservancy shad bake. There is no longer a sizeable migration of shad fish on the Hudson River.
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