Going after the paddlefish on the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers was once banned, but the populations came back enough to restart the paddlefish season. The DNR is hoping for similar success in ...

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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has attempted on its own to repopulate paddlefish in the past, but all efforts have been unsuccessful. By nature the fish aren’t easy to re-establish. They prefer ...

FORT WORTH, Texas - "That's a scary looking thing!" said Anita Branch, senior geotechnical engineer with the Dam Safety Production Center in Tulsa, Okla., after viewing pictures in an article about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ralph Simmons, assistant hatchery manager, carries a paddlefish to the operating table at the Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery in ...

CLINTON, Iowa (AP) -- Every winter, just below the lock and dam here, John Pitlo goes fishing. The voyages he takes with two others on the Mississippi River are one part of a tale involving the caviar ...

Michael Clancy, regional fisheries manager for the state Department of Environmental Conservation in Region 9, holds up a stocked paddlefish that was netted. The paddlefish, a large, primitive ...

Paddlefish. They’re odd looking fish that are being raised at the Shreveport Aquarium but destined for a new home in Caddo Lake. “When people think of prehistoric creatures they think of T-Rex or ...

Researchers aren't sure if they went over the Table Rock Dam spillway or through the big power-generating turbines. But at least two paddlefish took that wild ride and ended up being caught by ...

They say records are made to be broken. But an Oklahoma paddlefish snagger, who would have easily set a new world record with a 157-pound fish he caught on Valentine's Day, won't land in the world ...