Texas is home to some of the biggest fish ever caught, from ocean predators to freshwater giants. But with new deregulations allowing certain species to grow unchecked, the next record-breaking catch ...

Montana’s Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in the Western U.S. and has always been a big draw for anglers ...

Many freshwater fish are highly endemic; the entire range of a species is ... on the frontline of the goodeids’ fight for ...

The Southeastern Michigan Aquarium Society held an auction Saturday, where hobbyists spent hours bidding on colorful fish to ...

For most bass anglers, reeling in a trophy largemouth is a lifetime achievement. Ross Gomez, a fifty-year-old corrections ...

No matter how big some fish may think they are ... They can swim fast and are very good at hunting other fish. A pike is a freshwater fish that lives in lakes and rivers. Pike mainly hunt fish ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...

These are the world’s longest-lived freshwater fish. Some reach 127 years old, a feat previously thought impossible for ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...