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One of the United States' largest fisheries is hiding in plain sight. Recreational freshwater anglers in the lower 48 states ...

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Researchers say released pet goldfish can grow, reproduce and alter shallow freshwater ecosystems once established in the ...

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Life revolves around water in this quiet fishing village in Brazil’s southern Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland. Here, a ...

Darkening waters are slowing fish growth and shifting species balance, favoring fish that rely less on vision. Ecosystems and ...

Freshwater fish populations that dwell nearer the poles are outperforming their equatorial counterparts, researchers have found. Freshwater fish populations that dwell nearer the poles are ...

A fisherman in northern Cambodia hooked what researchers say is the world’s largest freshwater fish — a giant stingray that scientists know relatively little about. Subscribe to read this story ...

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Health experts have been sounding the alarm about PFAS, human-made toxic chemicals that last so long in the environment and people that they've been called "forever chemicals. The compounds have been ...