The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating reports of dead fish and a “strong, septic odor” at Dean Lake in eastern Des Moines. According to a news release, the DNR began receiving ...

The bottom fish is the federally endangered pallid sturgeon; the top is the more common shovelnose sturgeon. The color of the pallid is a whitish gray, and the "nose" is more elongated. The Iowa ...

GARNER, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a release of copper from an animal mineral nutrition facility near Garner. The liquid flowed into ...

The top fish is the common shovelnose sturgeon, the bottom fish is the endangered pallid sturgeon. (DNR photo by Mark Flammang) The Iowa DNR says a recent survey to document the population of a ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - It had been over a century since a Paddlefish was spotted on the Iowa Great Lakes, that is until the Iowa Department of Natural Resources reintroduced the species last ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KCRG) - 60 inches and 105 pounds, that’s the new record for the largest blue catfish to ever be captured in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the behemoth fish ...

A sign for trout stream fishing on the Turkey River sits behind a trout pond at Big Spring Fish Hatchery in Elkader on May 28. The river is open to the public for fishing and has an angler access ...