You may be surprised that the largest, freshwater fish in North America may be swimming in the Mississippi River under the I-20/Hwy. 80 bridges at Vicksburg as you are reading this. The Alligator Gar ...

Invasive silver carp have been spreading throughout the Mississippi River Basin since their introduction a half-century ago.

Invasive silver carp have been found in the lower Chippewa and Black rivers in western Wisconsin, the state Department of ...

According to the National Park Service, there are more than 120 fish species inhabiting the Mississippi River. The freshwater drum is one of the most commonly caught fish in the river, but at an ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the land around the Sny Magill Unit and Johnson Slough as part of the Upper ...

The Effigy Mounds are one of the densest collections still existing in North America, but the Mississippi River is eating ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The 240,000 ...

This list is by no means exhaustive; with 277,209 square miles of water in the U.S., there are plenty of great places for ...

Oct. 29, 2024 — In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast of Norway, where a swarm of cod overtook them, consuming over 10 million fish in ...

It was the annual Waterfowl Observation Day celebration, hosted in part by the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and ...

Barges wrap around bottomland forest in Pool 10 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The 240,000-acre refuge, which includes backwaters off the main river channel ...