Courtney Flatt, NWPR/EarthFix The Wild Fish Conservancy filed a lawsuit Thursday that accuses two federal agencies of violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to consider the impacts of ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

Today, ray-finned fish, which belong to the bony fish, are by far the most biodiverse fish group in both salt- and freshwater. Their spectacular variety of forms ranges from eels, tuna, flounders and ...

Environmental groups are turning to the courts to block the placement of hatchery-reared fish in rivers where wild fish are struggling for survival. The latest such case involves Washington state’s ...

On a sunny day in the Toutle River Valley last week, a school of juvenile coho salmon lazed around a gentle-moving portion of the South Fork Toutle, just inches upstream from a six-foot-tall base of ...

A single serving of freshwater fish per year may be the same as drinking water laced with toxic, so-called "forever chemicals" for a month, according to a study conducted by a Washington D.C.-based ...

Officials in Hong Kong are investigating an outbreak of invasive Group B Streptococcus cases linked to handling freshwater fish. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A small, mysterious creature found only in a single lake in Zambia ...

Six years ago, right before the pandemic struck, NPR correspondents Rebecca Davis and Marc Silver visited a village called Nduru Beach in Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria. We came to meet a ...

She's talking about a cooperative of 20 women who did the unthinkable. They are fishmongers from the village of Nduru Beach in Kenya who said no to fishermen who demanded: Give me sex, and I'll make ...