Intense fishing going back to the early 1800s, however, took a heavy toll on lake sturgeon numbers. The fish were first killed as a nuisance, because they damaged fishing gear. Later, they were ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... while freshwater fishing is almost exclusively a means of subsistence. “Most freshwater fish catches don’t ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Just before dawn a seafood summit convenes near Honolulu Harbor. As two dozen or so buyers enter the United Fishing ...

Rolex and National Geographic are longtime collaborators on the Explorer of the Year award, which is presented each June during the Society’s Explorers Festival in Washington, D.C. “We want ...

At layout time back at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., the editing ... While reading about the Grimersta and the fishing lodge for which it is famous, I came across this ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When North Atlantic right whales migrate along North America’s eastern seaboard, they run a gantlet of fishing lines ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. There’s the plastic waste we can see—bottles, bags, discarded fishing nets, and all manner of other objects littering ...