Working Waterfront: Will the fish come back? Will the fish make it to their spawning grounds? These are the questions on the minds of fisheries biologists and river advocates this time of year, as they pay close attention to...

Bangor Daily News: A Canadian firm that is a subsidiary of the largest aquaculture operator in Maine pleaded guilty Friday in a Canadian courtroom to using illegal pesticides that killed hundreds of lobsters a little more than...

Scientific American: Fishes may not need bicycles, as Gloria Steinem once suggested, but elevators and ladders can come in handy. Since the 1960s the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has required dam builders to install state-of-the-art fish passages on public...

USAToday: Federal health regulators say a genetically engineered salmon that grows twice as fast as normal is unlikely to harm the environment, clearing the way for the first approval of a genetically engineered animal for human consumption. The Food...

Since Thursday, September 27, the Connecticut DEEP has released 700 salmon to start the 2012 fall broodstock Atlantic salmon stockings. Crystal Lake was stocked Thursday (9/27) with 200 salmon. On Friday, September 28, Mount Tom Pond was stocked with...

The state of Connecticut has begun its annual stocking of Atlantic salmon in the Naugatuck River. On Friday, September 28, 200 salmon in the 2- to 6-pound range were released into the upper Naugatuck River in and around Exit...

CT.com: Every year, hatchery trucks dump hundreds of thousands of little salmon “fry” into Connecticut River system streams. It’s part of a 4-decades-long attempt to bring back an iconic fish that disappeared from these waters in the early 1800s....

Connecticut’s opening day for trout fishing season was Saturday, April 21, and state officials have been busy making sure the state’s rivers, streams, lakes and ponds are stocked and ready to go. Amounts Stocked on Opening Day Number Species...

BeaumontEnterprise.com: A Vermont fisherman who caught a 9.5-pound salmon captured something else, too—a homing device that ended up leading authorities to the illegally taken fish in his freezer. Fisheries biologists, who had previously put radio transmitters in Atlantic salmon...

At 45 square miles, Sebago is Maine’s second largest lake and, with a maximum depth of 305 feet, its deepest. The lake is home to several species of game fish, most notably landlocked salmon, which bears the Latin name...