PESHTIGO (WLUK) -- Along the Lakeshore, crews from the Department of Natural Resources are fishing for sturgeon, using nets corral the prehistoric fish. It's all part of an effort to gather more ...

Fish are doubtlessly feeling about now whatever fish feel when the urge to spawn kicks in. In but a little while – if not today or yesterday – female and male will be heeding an ancient directive by ...

A new study provides the first detailed documentation of a shallow-water fish diving 450 feet deep to spawn. Uncovering this very rare spawning behavior in bonefish (Albula vulpes) is unprecedented.

BAUDETTE (AP) -- By any standard, the 42 1/2-inch northern pike was a trophy. And it had quite a story to tell. Five years ago, the fish had shown itself in this same place, a shallow, weedy bay off a ...

Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs — an indication the armored “living fossils” may be reproducing in that state for the ...

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In spawning, female fish lay eggs while the male fish fertilizes them with milt, or sperm. At the hatchery, staff members net the fish that are ready to spawn and place them into a tub of anesthetic, ...

BRIDGEPORT, N.Y. -- Researchers at the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackleton Point recently netted the largest fish ever recorded from Oneida Lake – a 73.6-inch sturgeon. The fish, which ...

The bass spawn is one of the best times of the year to catch your personal best largemouth or smallmouth. As water temperatures warm across the country, bass begin to gorge on food in preparation for ...

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