A pending world-record alligator gar caught by Art Weston is the heaviest freshwater fish every landed on 2-pound test.

“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented ... had separated from Antarctica and South America and was drifting northwards.

However, artisanal and subsistence fishers also catch freshwater fish in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, which are rarely documented. Freshwater fisheries are also under pressure - pollution, ...

Virtually everyone in North America lives within relatively close proximity to a body of fresh water that holds a variety of ...

The Southeast also contains more than two-thirds of North America's species and ... the Service protected five southeastern fish species and was moving forward on protection decisions for no fewer ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...

WASHINGTON— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... a top priority.” Freshwater mollusks are the most endangered group of animals in ...