Connecticut biologists have been on the lookout for signs of the melanoma recently shown to be spreading among brown bullhead catfish in a lake shared by Vermont and Quebec. Officials here have been ...

While collecting data at the dock in Newport, Pete Emerson (left) holds up a brown bullhead with melanomas on the left, while a colleague holds up a healthy fish. Both were caught in Lake Memphremagog ...

A team of researchers from Vermont has identified what they say is the first-ever transmissible cancer in a freshwater fish species. The disease presents as raised black skin lesions on brown bullhead ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there is such a thing as an "everyman's fish" on a worldwide scale, it would probably be the catfish. Hearty, adaptable, and ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WKRC) - Scientists have discovered a contagious cancer in North American catfish. According to Wired, scientists have identified the first known contagious cancer in a freshwater fish ...

FISHING-- Nice try. Even Washington fish biologists couldn't tell just by looking. But they were skeptical, so they did some tests.... The photo above shows a fish submitted as a potential Washington ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When Mitchell Dering got off work on March 14, he had an itch to go fishing. Dering went to Duck Creek Conservation Area with his bow and scanned the waters on one of the ditches ...

I find if I just look around there is always some reason for celebration. I’m not being a little Miss Sunshine — it’s true! There is always a special day or “national month of” to commemorate ...

In 2008, just two years after a $6 million poisoning rid Diamond Lake of 90 million tui chubs, the lake once again produced family limits of fat trout. Discovery last month of a new tui chub in the ...