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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...