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 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 ...

This uniquely American freshwater fish is found in the Mississippi River basin, the Great Lakes, and other small bodies of water east of the Great Lakes. It is a fierce fighter with sharp teeth ...

The fish have been wiped out in their namesake river and have lost 64% of their historic range in Mississippi and Louisiana because of oil and gas development, dams, mining, urbanization and ...

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

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

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

The Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a beautiful sprawling wetland of protected land that offers up great hiking and ...

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 ...

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 ...