The spring white sucker run is on around the Lake Erie tributaries this week, a fish disdained by most anglers even though it can be easy to hook, is great fun to catch and surprisingly good to eat.

The biggest threat to the sucker's existence is withdrawal of water from the streams in which it lives, for municipal, agricultural and livestock uses, according to the action. The water withdrawals ...

Caught and thrown among the rocks at Sixth Street Park, dead sucker fish dry in the sun. The boneyard is built upon misconceptions about the bottom-feeder, anglers say.

PALISADE, Colo. (CBS4) Think of the bottom feeder sucker fish in a tank, lips suctioned to the glass, cleaning an aquarium nonstop. Now make that fish 3 to 4 feet long, possibly 30+ pounds, and ...

Four or five fish would be the maximum given the tank's size. However, in his opinion, we should first go home, fill the aquarium with water, and wait 24 hours before introducing any fish.

The fish was listed as endangered in 1985 due to habitat loss. Recovery efforts have focused on working with landowners to reduce overgrazing and fence livestock out of streams.

The Klamath Tribes say the agency and the management plan it works from doesn’t do enough to protect endangered fish in southern Oregon.

The fish, which have large, thick lips and small mouths that vacuum or suck up algae and other organisms for food, also prefer gravelly bottoms and stream-side vegetation.

Western Slope high school science teacher Pat Steele created a fish hatchery and works with students to help save the razorback sucker, an endangered species.

The fish are successfully spawning up in the rivers, the eggs hatch, and then the babies enter Upper Klamath Lake. USFWS biologist Evan Childress releases a sucker into Upper Klamath Lake.