Fish Stories

Fishing at Dry Tortugas

The pristine and undammed waters of the Upper Delaware River provide excellent habitat for a diverse variety of fish species such as trout, bass, walleye, and shad.

Federally endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout are large, charismatic fish that play crucial roles in both stream and ocean ecosystems. The National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program and its partners began monitoring coho and steelhead in Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore in 1998.

The amount of tree cover around a lake may be more responsible for mercury in fish than contaminated rain or snow.

For two weeks in October 2024, the San Francisco Bay Area Network fish crew travelled daily to Lake Sonoma’s Warm Springs Hatchery. There, we marked approximately 3,000 juvenile coho for release into Redwood Creek. This effort was time well spent, as these fish present unique research opportunities—as well as a chance to increase the future viability of the small wild population in Redwood Creek.

Building rock dams or digging new river channels may seem like harmless fun, but they can affect the flow and quality of the water, even well upstream. Find out how you can help keep rivers wild.

Lake Roosevelt offers hundreds of miles of shoreline, so you can relax and easily find a place to relax and drop in a line. Check out our links to local agencies where you can purchase your fishing license.

Easy access to Valles Caldera's premier front-country stream, the East Fork Jemez River, allows anglers to enjoy fishing longer hours and longer seasons in the park.

Devils Hole in was shaken by an earthquake that happened 500 miles away. This impacted the only habitat of an endangered species of fish.

Check out the numbers of post-fire Bonneville cutthroat trout recovery.