The adipose fin on trout and salmon appears to be a body part fish don’t need. However, selective removal of this fleshy protuberance on the fish’s back is paying big dividends for Washington anglers.

Like tonsils and foreskin in humans, the adipose fin on trout and salmon appears to be a body part fish don’t need. However, selective removal of this fleshy protuberance on the fish’s back is paying ...

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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, ...

The salmon came easily at first, swirled a few enticing feet beyond the net, then tore off on a trademark spring chinook "boat run," as it's known in the fleet speckling Portland-area waters these ...

(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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Clipping an unneeded fin from hatchery salmon and trout has proved to be a valuable method for scientists and fishery managers to separate the fish from their cousins in the wild ...

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 ...

MBDA has revealed a slightly modified Meteor that would allow four of the beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles to be stored inside the Lockheed Martin F-35. A miniature Meteor mock-up featuring ...