This is one of a series of stories The Plain Dealer will print this year as a part of The Year of the River, a recognition of the Cuyahoga River's return to health 40 years after it caught fire.

Wearing protective waders and walking upstream side-by-side through Brodhead Creek, Aaron Henning and Blake Maurer clutched long-handled nets in one hand and electrodes attached to the end of equally ...

Fisheries biologists regularly count trout or Arctic grayling in Montana’s streams by introducing an electrical field to stun and capture the fish. When trout encounter the electrical field their ...

Other fish that are good indicators of water quality include the redhorse sucker, smallmouth bass, darters and mimic shiners, Hothem said Redhorse are good because they feed on insects and need clean ...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted an electrofishing operation on the St. Joseph River Tuesday, surveying for grass carp and other invasive species. Introduced to the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Delivering a minor electric shock into a stream to reveal any fish lurking nearby may be the gold standard for detecting fish populations, but it’s not much fun for the trout.

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL)- Sport fishing is expected to be a popular activity as Boone Lake is set to return to normal summer pool this year. As the seven-year repair project for Boone Dam wraps up, the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I had one in mind, but after “fishing” one night earlier this summer with ...

Invasive species can be a major problem no matter where they’re found, but for researchers trying to combat invasive fish species, the challenges are unique. In Kentucky, wildlife officials are doing ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – On a slow-moving Euclid Creek just before it empties into Lake Erie, field biologists Mark Matteson and Justin Telep were demonstrating one of the ways the Northeast Ohio Regional ...