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, ...

Polar fish experience lower mortality than tropical fish, allowing them to delay reproduction until later in life when they are larger and can produce more eggs, according to a study by Mariana ...

Some species of fish can evolve their egg-laying habits in response to predators in the area in order to survive, according to new research. Some species of fish can evolve their egg-laying habits in ...

In this segment of “North Dakota Outdoors,” host Mike Anderson takes us to Lake Sakakawea during this year’s fall fish reproduction survey. Fisheries supervisor Russ Kinzler says this year’s fall fish ...

Recently hatched whitefish, no bigger than a grain of wild rice, are being raised in a tank. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian's hatchery is raising whitefish in an effort to see if ...

Genetic analysis shows Baltic Atlantic herring evolved four key reproductive adaptations to thrive in low-salinity waters, ...

As a prairie kid in the 1980s, the image of a Game and Fish distribution truck backing up to a favorite small slough or reservoir and stocking fingerlings spawned day dreams of fishing memories. And I ...

It may sound too bizarre to be true, but the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a fish that inhabits rivers, lakes, and swamps ...

Ranging in size from about 2 to 6 inches, the killifish are ideal for evolutionary studies because they are highly adaptable to their surroundings. Some types of killifish are even known to be ...

A Great Lakes News Collaborative series investigating the region’s water pollution challenges. This series explores the Clean Water Act’s shortcomings in the Great Lakes, and how the region can more ...