Fish

Planned Parenthood, ACLU Do What Alabama Legislature Wanted, Files Lawsuit Against Abortion Ban

It was immediately inhaled by one of the Alabama-specific species, the redeye bass. It also happened to be the first redeye bass of my long fishing career. “Justin is really knowledgeable on spotted (Alabama bass), hybrid and striper fishing on a fly,” Morgan said. “East and northeast Alabama have a lot of great places to fish, especially the redeye bass,” he said. Redeye bass are our own …


Irrigators File Lawsuit Over Klamath Refuge Restrictions

Multiple irrigators claim the federal government’s plans for two Klamath-area national wildlife refuges unlawfully restrict farmed acres and agricultural practices. In the final days of the Obama administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued plans for managing several refuges in the Klamath basin over the next 15 years.


Class Action Lawsuit Claims Swedish Fish Packaging Uses 63 Percent Slack-Fill

An unhappy customer has filed a class action lawsuit against an international snack company over allegations that it shortchanged her with the amount of product in its candy packaging. Tamika Daniel of Brooklyn, New York, has accused Mondelez International of fraud and negligent misrepresentation. Daniel alleges the company has been selling products with too …


Pacific Fisher Lawsuit

Four conservation groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not listing the Pacific fisher, a small, weasel-like predator, as a threatened species. The lawsuit alleges the agency failed to consider the best scientific evidence when it decided not to provide the fisher protections under the Endangered …


FDA Approves World’s First GMO Fish: Fast-Growing Atlantic Salmon

These salmon started out as regular Chinooks but have had their growth regulation gene modified with the DNA from the ocean pout fish. This extra bit of DNA, called a promoter , help boost the expression of the salmon’s growth gene, making the fish get bigger, faster. In fact, these salmon reach harvest size in half the time as their conventional cousins.