Macklin Caruso

A toxic algal bloom swept the California Bay Area late last month, leaving thousands of fish dead in its wake. Known as the “red tide” because of the reddish-brown color of the alga, it is the single-biggest environmental catastrophe of its kind in the bay’s recorded history. Investigations continue...

Update: According to a July 19, 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) press release, officials successfully used the public’s help and “good old-fashioned police work” to track this poacher down. On July 10, Steven Samuelson, of Oakley, Kansas, pleaded guilty in Teller County District Court to the...

A Mississippi man shattered state records on July 31 with a 104-pound blue catfish caught after a long weekend on the Mississippi River near Natchez. Christopher Halley of Brookhaven, Mississippi, caught the behemoth fish of biblical proportions on a trotline, setting a record for blue catfish in...