Lake whitefish in the upper Great Lakes are vanishing — not because they’ve stopped spawning, but because their young are failing to survive. In parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, harvests have ...

It took the team about 90 minutes to net all 600 dace from the creek’s much larger population of the fish, said Arizona Game and Fish Department biologist Besty Grube.

It turns out that in early branches of the fish family tree, like the sturgeon, the neural crest forms the bony armor that covers them, suggesting an ancient role in bone formation that goes back ...

Though often overlooked, freshwater systems—such as lakes and rivers—produce or influence (through riverine nutrients into estuaries) more than half of all fish consumed globally.

Fish have been fundamental to people’s food security for thousands of years. While most attention to fisheries is focused on the oceans, freshwater systems support more than 40% of all fish ...