(WXMI) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is advising anglers to turn in fish with adipose fin clips. We’re told those clips may contain important information that may help scientists ...

Adipose fins are found on approximately 20% of ray-finned fish species. The apparently rudimentary anatomy of adipose fins inspired a longstanding hypothesis that these fins are vestigial and lack ...

(CBS Detroit) --If you've caught a trout or salmon in Michigan with its adipose fin clipped, the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says it may have a tag with important information. Lake ...

Seven temporary workers and three volunteers at the Samish Hatchery began the process Monday morning of clipping by hand the adipose fins of about 5.2 million coho salmon smolt. The fin clipping, ...

Yanking a salmon out of the Columbia River, fishermen look for a tiny indicator of whether the catch is a keeper. Yanking a salmon out of the Columbia River, fishermen look for a tiny indicator of ...

Last year, I wrote about the adipose fin found in some fish, which researchers had considered a vestigal organ until a team from the University of Chicago showed that it has, in fact, repeatedly ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - One of the first things Idaho’s spring and summer Chinook Salmon anglers want to know when they net their prized catch is whether it has an adipose fin or not. A clipped ...

The daily bag limit for adult hatchery coho will increase to three fish in the mainstem Columbia River from Tongue Point east of Astoria upstream to the U.S. 395 bridge in Pasco, Wash., effective ...

Of the 50 or so species of fish in the Columbia River basin, perhaps the oddest is the sand roller. Aptly named because of a preference for mud or sandy bottoms of large rivers, sand rollers are ...