I have always thought the shad was a good food base for the upper river sturgeon, so this concerns me. So I guess now we will get to find out how long it takes to remove them from the Columbia. Won't be to long now before we hear about all the smelt in the lower columbia and lots of folks wanting to jump on them also. Hope they try to manage shad in some manner as it sounds like they are going to fish them all the way up the big c, and try to retain a breeding population.