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![image: American shad, via USFWS.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/03/HLS-american-shad-usfws.jpeg)
Where Do American Shad Like to Spawn?
![](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/03/menhaden-noaa.jpg)
Does it Help to Look at the Big Picture When Managing Menhaden?
![Fish hooks, from 12,000 years ago.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/03/HLS-ancient-tackle-journal.pone_.0257710.g003-e1647461836445.png)
How Did People Catch Fish 12,000 Years Ago?
![Pictured here is a Goliath grouper piercing through a school of baitfish. Laura Rock/NOAA.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/03/NOAA-laura-rock-goliath-grouper-scaled-1.jpg)
Are Fish Headed North?
![](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/04/14517014141_bbe314c03f_b.jpg)
Is There an Environmentally Friendly Way to Keep Hitchhiking Organisms Off Your Boat?
![Joe Hoyt, Maritime Archaeologist with the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, takes photos of the shipwreck from the submersible. Image courtesy of Carmichael, Project Baseline - Battle of the Atlantic expedition.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/02/HLS-hoyt-NOAA-scaled-1.jpeg)
Which Fish Congregate Around Deepwater Shipwrecks off North Carolina?
![image: sunset fishing. credit: Don McCullough via CC-BY-2.0, CreativeCommons.org.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/02/HLS-fishing-Don-McCullough-CC-BY-2.0-scaled-1.jpg)
How Did Anglers Relieve Stress When the Pandemic First Hit?
![image: spotted sea trout.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/02/spotted-seatrout-FFW-CC-BY-ND-2.0-scaled-1.jpg)
Are You Ready to Go to Fishery Science School?
![StriperHub coordinator Ben Reading. credit: NCSU CALS.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/01/HLS-StriperHub-coordinator-Ben-Reading-1.png)
Can We Really Mass-Produce Striped Bass?
![Lionfish. Credit: NOAA.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/hooklinescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/01/lionfish-NOAA.png)