Wild salmon are not just rarer than their farmed cousins—they're better looking too. In a new study by my colleagues and I, we found that they are noticeably more symmetrical than those reared in ...

The earth is full of crazy looking sportfish with bad attitudes. Fish that attack lures with a vengeance and possess enough unique characteristics to set them far apart from the ordinary. These are ...

Want to know everything about fishing in New World? Fishing is one of many different trade skills in New World, and catching rare fish takes a lot of work. Sometimes a quest asks for you to catch ...

A fisherman on the Lake of the Ozarks brought ashore a world-record paddlefish Sunday that weighed more than 164 pounds—the biggest paddlefish ever caught and the largest fish of any kind in ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years. Here’s its story ...

At first glance, it looks like something is wrong. A strange, floating slab of flesh rises beside a fishing boat, as if the rest of the animal is missing. But this is not a half eaten fish or the ...

The World's Forgotten Fishes report is a celebration of freshwater fishes – and it’s a call to action too. Rivers, lakes and wetlands are among the most biodiverse places on earth. They cover less ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...