SOLDOTNA, Alaska — A trio of anglers leaned on the edge of Jordan Carter's boat in shallow water on the Kenai River last month, victoriously enjoying a cold beverage.

Their ride with Carter, a local fishing guide, was brief but bountiful. The group pulled in 18 sockeye salmon in a flash, easily reaching their limit with time left to enjoy the...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — For the second summer in a row, Florida wildlife officials said they are suspending the popular scallop harvest along all state waters in Pasco County over worries of unsafe toxins from harmful algal blooms.

Water samplers have detected potentially harmful levels of an algal bloom called Pyrodinium bahamense and the toxins it ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Recreational fishing industry leaders are calling on President Trump to limit industrial fishing of forage fish, such as menhaden.

Forage fish, also called bait fish, serve as food for other species. In recent years, oversight of the menhaden reduction fishery in Virginia has been debated through regulation requests and ongoing...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Genevieve Furtner took a glob of hundreds of fish eggs from a jar, placed it on top of a mesh screen and pushed a few clear, yellow eggs through it and into a pail of water.

Live muskie eggs have to be separated from the gray, dead ones taken over by fungi or they would die too.

With only an old fan to move the humid air, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — There’s a scene in the movie “John Wick: Chapter 2,” in which no one else notices the shootout between the movie’s star, Keanu Reeves, and another dude because their pistols are equipped with “silencers.”

Memo to the Writers Guild of America: There are no gun silencers. Only gun suppressors.

Suppressors don’t make...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Anglers on Mille Lacs Lake will be able to keep an extra walleye soon.

The daily limit will increase from two to three of the fish, after a slow bite this summer has meant fewer fish have been harvested from central Minnesota’s premier walleye lake.

Only about 22% of the state’s annual Mille Lacs walleye quota had been met ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Todd Finkelson suffers from road rage, though not the kind that typically makes headlines.

Every day, when he drives from his home near Ashby in west-central Minnesota to Fergus Falls, where he works, he keeps a sharp eye on the road — and an even sharper eye on roadsides.

“In that short distance, I can count at least 10 ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — All was still on the New River near the Davis Seafood fish house. But when 83-year-old William “Buddy” Davis walked out of his home and pulled on tall rubber boots, it signaled the work was about to begin.

Not far from tourist-filled beaches of Topsail Island, the Davis family began preparing for the homecoming of the 58-...Read more