In spawning, female fish lay eggs while the male fish fertilizes them with milt, or sperm. At the hatchery, staff members net the fish that are ready to spawn and place them into a tub of anesthetic, ...

Watch video and view photos as volunteers and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission officials collected hundreds of steelhead from Trout Run's nursery water in Fairview Township.

Fish are doubtlessly feeling about now whatever fish feel when the urge to spawn kicks in. In but a little while – if not today or yesterday – female and male will be heeding an ancient directive by ...

New striped bass data is giving hope to North Carolina fisheries experts that the species could soon turn a corner in its ...

Biologists from Colorado Parks and Wildlife along with volunteers are currently harvesting millions of fish eggs in the waters of Colorado reservoirs. It happens every spring at places like Cherry ...

Female rainbow trout, walleyes and northern pike are putting on weight these days. So are female perch, bass and even some pudgy little minnows. Spring is still some weeks away, but eggs are already ...

Walleyes, the favorite game species in many Midwest lakes and Minnesota’s official state fish, are struggling to spawn successfully due to warming springs and highly variable ice-out dates, creating ...

Whether or not you should fish a stream when trout are spawning is one of the great debates constantly raging in the trout fishing world. Without a doubt, trout deserve space to spawn in peace. But ...

In an effort to blunt the devastating toll California's extended drought has taken on the state's chinook salmon population, state and federal fish hatcheries in Northern California are spawning ...

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