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Three-quarters of Australia's freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians ...

How can we stop Australia's freshwater fish from going extinct? We dive into the facts to save these special species.

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has enacted laws establishing a freshwater fish hatchery in Agusan del Sur and an aquaculture ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation reported that it has been an up-and-down few years on Sanibel in many ways. For ...

It’s an extraordinary fact: 51% of all known species of fish live in freshwater - 18,075 species. And more are being discovered all the time. But few people have any idea of the unimaginable diversity ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...