Discover how to land and properly hold a fish without harming it or yourself. Learn beginner-friendly tips for gripping bass, trout, catfish, and more, whether you're keeping or releasing.

By closing their gills and mouths—holding their breath—the animals could limit their exposure to cold water. Some species, like bluefin tuna and mako sharks, have specialized anatomy that ...

Japanese researchers have captured an eel escaping from the stomach of a fish through its gills. While there have been other digestive tract escapes from animals, this is the first to be captured ...

Mortality rates were 48 percent for those hooked in the throat, 17 percent for those hooked in the gills and 20 percent for mouth-hooked fish.

The water tanks that held the fish during the experiment. (Image credit: Georgia McGee) Moreover, the fish breathe with their gills when puffed up, which means they can breathe as they always do ...

Study Finds Pufferfish Aren't Actually Holding Their Breath Even puffed up, the fish keeps on breathing through its gills.

Scalloped hammerhead sharks in Hawaii seem to limit the use of their gills during deep dives to prevent losing heat to their surroundings.

Fish are adapted to their environment, and gills are an incredible mechanism in nature that are specialized to filter oxygen into the bloodstream – so I adapted my design from that, with the ...

This odd deep-sea fish can hold its breath for four minutes Coffinfish use their enormous inflatable gills to fill their body with seawater—the first such discovery ever made in a fish.

Fish are slippery by nature and holding them can be tough. You want to ensure that you get a good grip on the fish so it doesn’t get away (or fall and injure itself).