LIBERTY– Saturday is World Fish Migration Day and this weekend the shad will start their run up the Upper Delaware River from the Port Jervis area through Sullivan and Delaware counties.
To mark the occasion, The Upper Delaware Scenic Byway and the Delaware Company, managers of the Fort Delaware space, will hold the first shad festival – the Festival of the Founding Fish.
John Pizzolato, former chairman of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, is co-founder of the weekend-long festivities.
“It’s happening in the ocean; it’s happening in other bodies of water all over our country. The shad are particularly interesting because they go from fresh water to saltwater very similar to an eel or a herring. They have this very long lifespan and that’s their sort of spawning time,” he said.
The Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association is promoting this event along with a number of other activities in the region this weekend.
