BISMARCK — North Dakota Game and Fish fisheries biologists spend a lot of time in fall surveying district lakes and the Missouri River System in North Dakota looking for natural fish reproduction, ...

Every year in September and October, fisheries biologists for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department conduct fall fish reproduction surveys on lakes and rivers in North Dakota. Game and Fish ...

PORT ARANSAS, Texas—Low oxygen levels in coastal waters interfere with fish reproduction by disrupting the fishes’ hormones, a marine scientist from The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science ...

In this segment of “North Dakota Outdoors,” host Mike Anderson takes us to Lake Sakakawea during this year’s fall fish reproduction survey. Fisheries supervisor Russ Kinzler says this year’s fall fish ...

“Maturation and spawning appear to be induced when the supply of oxygen relative to the weight of individual fish declines. Thus, growing fish gradually become oxygen-limited, and there is a threshold ...

A new study examining fishes’ reactions to heat at different stages of their life process has revealed that warming waters could impede reproduction in up to 60% of species. Saltwater and freshwater ...

As a prairie kid in the 1980s, the image of a Game and Fish distribution truck backing up to a favorite small slough or reservoir and stocking fingerlings spawned day dreams of fishing memories. And I ...

A Great Lakes News Collaborative series investigating the region’s water pollution challenges. This series explores the Clean Water Act’s shortcomings in the Great Lakes, and how the region can more ...