Recovery: Benefits of Salmon Failure

Behind a well-publicized failure to recover Atlantic salmon is a largely unknown story of conservation success.

Ted Williams

Accidents on the Ocean Highway: Improved Safety Program Needed for Marine Turtles

Sea turtles are often caught as bycatch, accident victims on the ocean highways. Fishers in Pakistan are leading the way in safe release of sea turtles and other species until new fishing technologies are developed to prevent bycatch.

Moazzam Khan

Dead Zone Redemption

The Nature Conservancy is working with partners to reduce the amount of nutrients entering the Mississippi River Basin by 20 percent by 2025.

Bryan Piazza

The Surprising Importance of Freshwater Fisheries to Global Food Security

Marine fisheries are well known for their ability to produce food. But rivers and lakes are vital to food security too.

Matthew L. Miller

Recovery: Saving Loons from Lead Fishing Tackle

Loons face many hazards. Here’s one we can easily address: lead fishing tackle.

Ted Williams

Recovery: Humpback Chubs, New Values and New Hope for Endangered Native Fish

Once fisheries managers advocated that anglers squeeze and kill any native humpback chub they caught. But attitudes, they are a changing.

Ted Williams

We Can Have Oceans Teeming with Fish with FishFace Technology

Good data about the size and distribution of fish sets sustainable fisheries apart from those that are overfished. FishFace uses facial recognition technology to supply that data in real time.

Lisa Feldkamp

Gillnets in Lake Yellowstone: Can Conservationists Recover Cutthroat Trout in Our First National Park?

When lake trout arrived in Lake Yellowstone, it devastated a native fish and an ecosystem. On the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, can a heroic effort set things right?

Matthew L. Miller and Kris Millgate

New Research on the Remarkable Binge-Eating Bull Trout

Think you eat a lot on Thanksgiving? Meet a real champion binge eater: the bull trout.

Matthew L. Miller

Recovery: Saving Grayling With a Carrot and Stick

The stunning native fish known as grayling has struggled in Montana. But a juggernaut of agencies, conservation organizations and ranchers is making a difference.

Ted Williams

Restoring Guadalupe Bass After the Smallmouth Invasion

Guadalupe bass, the Texas state fish, suffered greatly when non-native smallmouth bass were stocked in their river. A new conservation effort is bringing them back.

Matthew L. Miller

Restoring an Ancient Nursery for Atlantic Sturgeon

Atlantic sturgeon were once so plentiful that during their spring spawning runs they would upset boats on the Delaware River. Today, scientists are working to bring this ancient fish back from the brink.

Randy Edwards