Founding Fish: The American Shad w/ Bridgette Nicolosi

In this episode "Founding Fish: The American Shad", the crew gets patriotic with America’s favorite fish, the American Shad! We meet Bridgette Nicolosi, a fisheries ecologist that knows a ton about the early life stages of these mysterious fishies. These shad grow up in the ocean, swim back up rivers to spawn and many of them can do it multiple times! Come learn about shad, fisheries ecology and some advice about breaking into the field!This podcast is brought to you by the candy darter. Ever been curious what a candy cane might look like if Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned it into a fish? There you have it. These masters of moving water can dart around quite quickly, zipping about between the rocks of many brooks and streams in the mid-Atlantic United states. Despite their name, I can assure you, they do not taste at all like candy. Unless you are a predator who likes to eat darters, then maybe it does. Cheers to you, candy darter, may you brighten up our streams forever. Thanks for listening to Gettin’ Fishy With It! You can find our website at ⁠⁠www.gettinfishywithit.com/⁠⁠. You can find us on BlueSky at ⁠⁠@gettinfishypod.bsky.social⁠⁠, and on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠@gettingfishypod⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you want to drop us an email, you can send your complaints (or questions!) to [email protected] theme music is “Best Time” by ⁠⁠⁠⁠FASSOUNDS⁠⁠⁠⁠. Our audio in this episode is edited and produced by Christine Archer. Check her out on all the socials @nerdrvt!We very much appreciate you taking the time to listen to our eighty-third episode! Please help out the podcast by subscribing on your podcast platform of choice. If you could leave us a review, that would be super helpful!Thanks, and we'll "sea" you again in two weeks!Additional audio credits this episode:"Adventures in Adventureland" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/