Q: While on vacation in Mexico, I overheard someone say dorado and mahi-mahi are the same fish. Can that be right? A. Depending on where you live, or cast your line, the same fish can indeed have ...

Green and gold flashes dart under and behind the boat. On deck, anglers scramble to man rods as line peels noisily from reels. Captain and crew shout instructions amid the excited chaos. This is the ...

May is traditionally the best time of the year to catch big dolphin in South Florida, and anglers don’t need to travel far offshore to find them. “The main thing is don’t overshoot the fish,” says ...

A vast, productive portion of the Pacific Ocean abounds off the coast of Panama. Known as the eastern tropical Pacific, nutrient-rich currents there associated with the northern flank of the Humboldt ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Cade Quick tied Georgia's state saltwater fishing record for dolphin fish with a 68-pound, 9.28-ounce catch. The catch was made on May 5 near the South Ledge using a blue and white chugger paired with ...

Traditionally September through early October has been prime time for offshore anglers to get in on some outstanding tuna fishing — but not this year. Bluefin, yellowfin, bigeye — since early August ...

Nine northern resident killer whales off Vancouver Island were filmed and acoustically tagged during a summer field season, ...

Fernando Trujillo has spent more than 30 years studying the Amazon’s elusive river dolphin, under threat by the fishing trade. Twelve years ago, locals started killing river dolphins to attract a ...

Dolphins in Florida have a special way of hunting: They stir up ring-shaped plumes of mud with their tails and corral fish into an ever-tightening circle. The frightened fish then jump out of the ...