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 ...

It’s an extraordinary fact: 51% of all known species of fish live in freshwater - 18,075 species. And more are being discovered all the time. But few people have any idea of the unimaginable diversity ...

But then we’d also have to include the 661-pound giant stingray that some angler-researchers tagged in Cambodia in 2023, and which edged out the previous Guinness World Record for the largest ...

Mussel shells provide living space for insects and plants, and empty shells serve as nesting sites for small fish like darters. Unfortunately, for all their allure, freshwater mussels are the most ...

Very large bass have been reported, with some reaching nearly 10 pounds. Shiners have remained popular, just stick to the ...

Key to Parasites of Freshwater Fish of the U.S.S.R. Compiled by I. E. Bykhovskaya-Pavlovskaya et al. Translated from the Russian. Pp. viii + 919. (Jerusalem : Israel Program for Scientific ...