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.

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 ...

Lena Sawyers, a biologist at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, holds a flathead catfish captured during an electrofishing demonstration on the Potomac River on Sept. 10. (Photo by ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONTOUR FALLS, N.Y. (WETM) — Researchers and volunteers were out in Catharine Creek on Wednesday, for Rainbow Trout sampling — ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...