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, …
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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 …
Salmon groups push ahead with fish kill in face of COVID-19
New Brunswick salmon groups and First Nations are keeping an anxious eye on the calendar as COVID–19 threatens the arrival of a key U.S. expert …
Climate change linked to decline of smallmouth bass in Potomac
Smallmouth bass are, by far, the most popular sport fish in the nontidal portion of the Potomac above Great Falls. But they’ve suffered from poor …
Failed salmon experiment led to arrival of rainbow trout in Missouri
The U.S. Fish Commission began experimenting with ways to curtail the decline in American fish stocks by relocating fish around the country. Eastern shad went …
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases 4,600 Lahontan cutthroat into Lake Tahoe
Have ladder, will travel. There may be a new destination on the horizon for Lahontan cutthroat. Following a successful three-day operation in October, the U.S. …