Most people don’t realize that many of the fish in Nebraska waters were grown at a state fish hatchery. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission operates five fish production facilities across the state ...

WASHINGTON – Michael Tehan had dedicated his 43-year career in the federal government to preserving salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest, but soon after the fish biologist decided to retire ...

While there is some natural reproduction going on in North Dakota waters, you could speculate that maybe half of the walleyes caught by anglers over time originated in the hatchery. Garrison Dam ...

RIVERDALE, N.D. - Biologists at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery are releasing more hatchery-raised pallid sturgeon into the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers. Hatchery manager Rob Holm said ...

North Dakota has its share of variety for anglers. Catfishing on the Red River, paddlefishing on the Yellowstone and Missouri, walleye at Lake Sakakawea and perch at Devils Lake are among the more ...

The author's son with a lake trout he caught with a guide on Lake Superior years back. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a new kind of lake trout record that was set on Lake ...

Years ago in grade school we took a field trip to Valley City National Fish Hatchery. Even now I don’t think I fully appreciated what was right in our own backyard. I know back then I certainly didn’t ...

Rivers in Washington may soon be divided into territory for either wild steelhead or hatchery steelhead. The hatchery steelhead are stuck in legal gridlock right now, after a lawsuit filed by the Wild ...

For Liz Renner, working as a fisheries biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was something she had been pushing toward for years. But she recently found herself among the thousands of ...