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Signage has gone up at fishing sites around the state, explaining how to differentiate Alabama bass from the local species, ...
Henderson, who lives in Wetumpka and works in Montgomery, said Alabama is blessed with a wealth of fishing opportunities from ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the snail darter from the Endangered Species List on Oct. 4, 2022, saying the small fish in the Tennessee River watershed is no longer in danger of ...
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alabama has 151 endangered or threatened species, the third most of any state.Only Hawaii (484 species) and California (286) have more.
By the 1970s, Alabama no longer had a native migrating population of striped bass. Like the fish themselves, the West Blocton mullet festival faded into memory. “The state has lost species diversity,” ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A fish species found in some northeast Alabama waters and throughout the Tennessee River has been removed from the endangered species list.
A 17-year-old angler from Alabama has potentially set a new fishing record after catching a 7-pound snook — a species that is new to Alabama waters. The teen hopes it's certified.
The Center petitioned for the species’ federal protection in 2010. Since then all three populations have continued to decline steeply as their home waters became further impaired. Alabama’s rivers and ...
Having documented hundreds of fossil fish species over the last decade, I found it puzzling that these teeth were from a shark that I didn’t recognize,” Mr. Ebersole said in a release from the ...
Still, Alabama bass, Micropterus henshalli, is the newest species of the black bass family, the most popular game fish in the nation, to call Texas waters home.Well, it calls just one piece of ...
A teenager from Alabama who went solo fishing to blow off some steam after his final exams returned to shore with a pending state record for a species that was new to the area. “It’s not the ...