A paddlefish, seen here at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center near Athens, Texas, uses its spatulalike bill to detect plankton. Its eggs are valuable as caviar, but it is illegal to sell the fish ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Memphis, Tenn., man is accused of illegally taking paddlefish eggs from a southwest Missouri lake to make caviar. Thomas Jerry Nix Jr., 38, was indicted Wednesday by a federal ...

An Arkansas man was sentenced in Tulsa this week to six months in prison for illegally transporting paddlefish eggs, a development a state wildlife official said illustrates a "big problem we take ...

SPRINGFIELD — A former Shell Knob man has been sentenced to one year in prison for harvesting paddlefish eggs from illegal nets at Table Rock Lake and selling the caviar in Tennessee. Thomas Jerry Nix ...

The odd-looking pre-historic paddlefish is threatened in many states. However, in some, like Minnesota, its numbers are growing. And local officials are tracking the fish's numbers and locations.

Muscle tissue and eggs from 30 paddlefish snagged this month do not test positive for any effects from the January oil pipeline spill in the Yellowstone River in Montana. State Game and Fish ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says a January oil pipeline spill on the Yellowstone River did not affect paddlefish. The agency says muscle tissue and eggs from 30 ...