IF YOU DIDN’T know better, you may have assumed the fish was dead. You could have easily walked by it, a passing glance convincing you it was just a rotten log. Its dull gray back is the same color as ...

One reason why we love living in the Lowcountry is the wide variety of fish species that call this area home. A native species that doesn’t always seem to get the respect it deserves is the bowfin ...

Well, the native fish folks are at it again, stirring the pot and doing weird stuff in public. They’re relentless like that—but in a good way. A week ago Friday I joined some of them in fishing for ...

The question of bowfin vs snakehead isn’t so much a matter of which is better—but of which is which. These long, snake-like fish are easily confused with one another. And that’s a problem, because ...

Ben Erb is a lifelong fisherman and Minnesotan who likes catching bass and walleyes just as much as the next guy. But his secret passion is targeting what others might call “rough fish,” hardy but ...

In a paper published in Nature Genetics, scientists reveal the genome assembly of the bowfin (Amia calva)—a bony fish endemic to eastern North America that is the sole surviving member of a once large ...