The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...

There is no official record-keeping or database of the world's biggest freshwater fish. The Mekong is rich ... researchers that he had caught a "very big" stingray - it turned out to be 3.98m ...

Some specks can be found around Wirt’s Point. The bass bite has been strong, not a lot of big fish are being caught but they ...

The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were ...

Virginia wildlife trapper Winston Marshall caught a 57-pound common snapping turtle that established a new state record ...

Condon hauled in this 20 pound freshwater drum. The Horseheads native added in his entry, that it was a “big thrill,” to ...

It’s an extraordinary fact: 51% of all known species of fish live in freshwater - 18,075 species. And more are being discovered all the time. But few people have any idea of the unimaginable diversity ...

A report has warned of a "catastrophic" decline in freshwater fish, with nearly a third threatened by extinction. Conservation groups said 80 species were known to have gone extinct, 16 in the ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...

From farm bass bonds to tarpon in the mangroves, these lures catch fish everywhere there’s water, salty or fresh.

As development marches westward from Franklin County, conservationists are raising the alarm about preserving biodiversity in ...

Freshwater fish populations in the Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA) river systems of southern Africa are in decline, so many stakeholders met last month in Namibia to share knowledge and suggest ways to ...