Migratory River Fish Populations Down 76% Since 1970
Populations of migratory river fish collapsed by 76% on average in the last 50 years, according to a report by conservation groups Tuesday, warning the …
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Feds Decline Protections for Arctic grayling
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that endangered species protections for a certain population segment of the Arctic grayling are no longer necessary, …
Bacterial Outbreak at CDFW Hatcheries
Several California Department of Fish and Wildlife fish hatchery facilities in the eastern Sierra and Southern California are battling a bacterial outbreak that has the …
Scientists Accidentally Bred the Fish Version of a Liger
Hungarian scientists have created a new animal hybrid when sperm from the American paddlefish and eggs from the Russian sturgeon were inadvertently mixed in the …
Stars and Stripers
The American flag has seven red stripes with white in-between. Striped bass has seven black stripes with white in-between. Coincidence? Not according to Isaac Schuchat, …
Fish Eggs Can Hatch After Being Eaten And Pooped Out By Ducks
For fish eggs, getting gobbled by a duck kicks off a harrowing journey that includes a pummeling in the gizzard and an attack by stomach …
The Biggest Salmon Habitat Issue You’ve Never Heard Of
Along British Columbia’s Fraser River, concrete obstructions block 1,500 kilometers of fish habitat and ‘meat grinder’ pump stations kill fish. Critics say it’s time for …
How Fishing in Texas Got So Good—and Kind of Weird
The state of Texas has spent more than a century building up a world-class fishery, with some unintended consequences. Texas has been hatching and stocking …
Rock slide caused ‘almost complete loss’ of early salmon runs at Fraser River
Early runs of Stuart sockeye and chinook salmon were devastated last year because they couldn’t make it past a massive landslide on British Columbia’s Fraser …
Sustainable Bluefin Tuna? Not So Fast
A decade’s worth of research says that an ecolabel for industrial bluefin tuna fisheries is a sham. For the MSC to even consider certifying a …