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Morning on the Clearwater River near Orofino, Idaho. This past fall, Idaho officials closed the Clearwater to steelhead trout and salmon fishing due to extremely low runs.

Northwest Salmon In Peril, And Efforts To Save Them Scale Up

Kirk Siegler

With Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead on the brink of extinction, there are new efforts being brokered to save the famed fish.

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Endangered Humpback Chub On Upswing In Colorado River Basin

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An endangered fish found in the Colorado River basin is on the upswing, federal officials said Tuesday as they proposed reclassifying the humpback chub as鈥�

Lake Shinji, near Japan's coast, is known for its beauty. Until about a decade ago, the lake was also home to thriving fisheries. New research suggests runoff of the controversial pesticides known as neonicotinoids, used on nearby rice paddies, may be responsible for declining fish populations.

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Controversial Pesticides Are Suspected Of Starving Fish

Dan Charles

New evidence from Japan's Lake Shinji suggests that the widely used family of pesticides called neonicotinoids, already controversial for harming pollinators, could pose risks to fish as well.

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Internet Heaps Scorn, Jokes On Colorado Baseball Team For Not Embracing The Humpback Chub

Luke Runyon

The internet loves certain things: rooting for an underdog, poking at humorless institutions, and coming up with ridiculous names. A flap over the name of鈥�

Volunteers coat sucker fish fillets with a secret recipe before putting them into the fryer at Nixa Sucker Days.

One Person's Trash Fish Is Another Town's Treasured Delicacy

Jonathan Ahl

Summer festivals are ubiquitous (especially across the Midwest), and often highlight the local food specialty, be it corn, apples or beef. But when the...

Above, fresh mahi mahi harvested from the sea. A handful of cell-based seafood companies are attempting to create fresh fish species, including mahi mahi, in a lab 鈥� where they will be grown without a head, tail, skin or bones.

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Seafood Without The Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?

Clare Leschin-Hoar

The seafood industry has some well-publicized problems: from overfishing to contaminants that make their way into fish. Now, a handful of startups aim to offer a "clean" alternative grown from cells.

Oily fish such as salmon, sardines and lake trout, as well as some plant sources such as walnuts and flaxseed, can be good, tasty sources of omega-3 fatty acids.

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Eating Fish May Help City Kids With Asthma Breathe Better

Allison Aubrey

A research team tracked the diets and exposures to air pollution of kids inside Baltimore homes. Children with diets high in omega-3 fatty acids seemed less vulnerable to pollution's effect on asthma.

A man throws a snapper onto a pile in a fish market in East Java, Indonesia. For certain snappers, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this is a recipe for collapse.

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Why Restaurant Demand For Smaller Fish Fillets Is Bad 暗黑爆料 For Oceans

Alastair Bland

Many U.S. chefs and retailers prefer intact fillets that constitute a single portion. That demand is driving overfishing for young fish that haven't reproduced. A new campaign aims to change that.

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Wyoming Among States To Debate What, Exactly, Counts As 'Meat'

Rae Ellen Bichell

Missouri has already made it a crime to label something like a veggie burger or tissue grown in a lab as 鈥渕eat.鈥� Now, other states are considering doing鈥�

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Public's Help Sought To Solve Colorado Fish Kill Mystery

Associated Press

Wildlife officials are asking for the public's help to determine what caused thousands of fish to die in a northern Colorado river.The Fort Collins鈥�