A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet the muskellunge, calling them the kings of freshwater. But these anglers must not fish for lake sturgeon. Indeed, in Wisconsin, which has dubbed ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan anglers may soon have more opportunities to battle and catch the Great Lakes region's largest fish, a fish that traces ...

Joe Kaseforth of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries office in Ortonville handles a Lake Sturgeon caught for analysis in Big Stone Lake. Minnesota's largest fish species was ...

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Maryland biologists got a real-life brush with a local legend this fall when they caught “Chessie” — the largest female Atlantic sturgeon ever recorded in their Marshyhope Creek gillnetting survey — ...

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. – Visitors gathered around a shallow tank Aug. 22 at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga and looked over the edge at a school of 3- to 4-foot-long fish. The fish swam slowly, ...

The Hudson River is home to a wealth of marine life thanks to the mingling of freshwater from the Adirondack Mountains and saltwater from the Atlantic Ocean. Because of this mix of waters, creatures ...