Catfish is the second largest (after the beluga) fish in Europe and the largest freshwater fish on the continent. It can ...

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 ...

There are 90 million anglers in China, 39 million in the USA, and almost 26 million in Europe, who every year look for the connection with the environment and wild freshwater fishes through ...

Although freshwater habitats cover less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface, they support 10 percent of known animal species.

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...