What may occur on the Klamath River by year’s end is a microcosm of the nation’s disturbing about-face on its ...

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list a fish exclusively found in middle Tennessee to the ...

Grieve for the gravel chub. Mourn the mud sunfish. Say sayonara to the spoonhead sculpin. And pour one out for the lake ...

CNY Outdoors DEC updates endangered species for first time since 1999, adds 16 imperiled fish to list Updated: May. 14, 2025, 11:33 a.m. | Published: May. 14, 2025 ...

House Republicans vote to repeal a decision that placed a California fish, longfin smelt, on the endangered species list. Democrats and environmentalists condemned the action.

The Prettiest Freshwater Fish: 5 Stunning Species You Need to See From artfully colored brook trout to flamboyant pumpkinseed, these amazing freshwater fish prove visual beauty isn’t just found ...

Maine pioneered dam removal to restore salmon runs. Now millions of fish, among them alewives, are swimming upriver again to inland spawning grounds. Every spring, alewives—a kind of river ...

The presence of the Balbina hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon led to the local extinction of several endemic fish species in the Uatumã River, according to research from the National ...

WATER QUALITY 50 dams in South Africa contain harmful bacteria Photo by Duane Daws ...

The two-inch snail darter became a symbol for regulatory overreach in the 1970s. New research suggests the fish was not an endangered species — or even a species.

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...

The dam was completed shortly thereafter. Subsequent recovery efforts succeeded in expanding snail darter populations throughout the Tennessee River system. The fish was removed from the Federal List ...