Every year in September and October, fisheries biologists for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department conduct fall fish reproduction surveys on lakes and rivers in North Dakota. Game and Fish ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota Game and Fish fisheries biologists spend a lot of time in fall surveying district lakes and the Missouri River System in North Dakota looking for natural fish reproduction, ...

A DNA probing technique clarifies the mechanism behind clonal reproduction of female dojo loach fish, also providing insight into the ancestral origin of the clonal population. A DNA probing technique ...

Small pelagic fish — including sardines, herrings, and anchovies — are under pressure from overfishing and rising global temperatures. A new study underscores the importance of sustainable fishery ...

Climate change may be depriving juvenile fish of their most crucial early food source by throwing off the synchronization of when microscopic plants known as phytoplankton bloom and when fish hatch, ...

FRENCH RIVER, Minn. - The St. Louis River has a healthy population of adult lake sturgeon, but those fish are not producing the numbers of young fish that biologists had hoped to see. Few adult ...

A place that has nurtured new life for almost 90 years is getting a new lease on life. New Gloucester Fish Hatchery is one of two aquatic nurseries that are being rebuilt or redesigned with $20 ...

After a strong festival run, the 2020 short Lachsmänner (Salmon Men) from Bern, Switzerland’s YK Animation has been posted online. The film’s festival run included stops at Fantoche, Animateka, and ...

The process of vitellogenesis is fundamental to fish reproduction, involving the synthesis of vitellogenin (VTG) in the liver, its release into circulation and the subsequent uptake by developing ...

In the spring, fisheries biologists have a small window of time to collect the northern pike and walleye eggs that are eventually stocked in North Dakota lakes as fingerlings in May and June. In the ...

In this week's “North Dakota Outdoors” webcast, host Mike Anderson visits with fisheries management section leader Scott Gangl to talk about statewide fall fish reproduction surveys on North Dakota ...

DENVER— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to reduce protection for a fish called the razorback sucker by reclassifying it from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act ...