Medieval European fishermen first took to the open seas in about AD1.000 as a result of a sharp decline in large freshwater fish, scientists have suggested. They say the decline was probably the ...

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Catfish is Europe's second largest (after beluga) fish and the largest freshwater fish. It can reach up to 3 metres in length ...

Millions of people rely on freshwater fish for food and as a source of income ... salmon are disappearing and the European eel remains critically endangered. According to the WWF, much of the ...

In Hamburg, authorities collected tons of dead fish from ponds and firefighters e started pumping fresh water into ponds and lakes in a bid to raise oxygen levels The low water levels have also ...

A deep-sea snail, many of Europe's fungi and half the freshwater fish in Japan are just some obscure additions to a list of threatened species. The Red List, a conservation status catalogue of ...

Whipsnade Zoo is fighting the extinction of a freshwater fish species recently found in their care by starting a new ...

Researchers discover Koima, a new genus of freshwater fish in the Western Ghats, highlighting biodiversity and endemism.