Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Seven months after Helene, we’re still learning how the storm affected the environment in East Tennessee ...

When a million kokanee were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in 2023, immediately killing tens of thousands of the fish, it was one of the first and most striking impacts of a controversial ...

Fisheries biologists with the Tennessee Valley Authority have begun to survey fish populations in Douglas Lake in Dandridge, Tennessee for the first time since Hurricane Helene debris covered many ...

The story of Great Lakes whitefish is not a happy one, state fish biologist Stephen Lenart warned on Thursday, but it needs to be told as their numbers decline. Lenart presented the uncomfortable ...

Sanford Lake will soon be refilling, and biologists say fish that have remained in the river and channels there are poised to produce countless young to repopulate the once burgeoning fisheries.

It’s said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To some, a long-snouted, murky white, boneless bottom feeder native to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers – known as the pallid sturgeon – might not ...

The fishery in Lake Spokane has been changing over the past few decades, and each change presents a trade-off. Smallmouth bass are still thriving, and there are more trophy bronzebacks than there used ...

In general, biologists want fish populations to follow a similar age and size trajectory. Quantities shrink as sizes and ages increase. But Keith and other fisheries biologists in the Green River area ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Ferris High School's Fishing Club received a donation of 17 fishing reels from Fish Biologist Randy Osborne with the Washington State Department of Wildlife. These reels will pair ...

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Seven months after Hurricane Helene, wildlife agencies are still learning how the storm affected the environment in East Tennessee. Officials with the Tennessee Valley ...