A paddlefish, seen here at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center near Athens, Texas, uses its spatulalike bill to detect plankton. Its eggs are valuable as caviar, but it is illegal to sell the fish ...

Pakhnyuk was charged after an undercover operation in the Warsaw, Missouri, area known as the Roadhouse between 2010 and 2012. Prosecutors say state and federal undercover agents observed him catching ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Memphis, Tenn., man is accused of illegally taking paddlefish eggs from a southwest Missouri lake to make caviar. Thomas Jerry Nix Jr., 38, was indicted Wednesday by a federal ...

SPRINGFIELD — A former Shell Knob man has been sentenced to one year in prison for harvesting paddlefish eggs from illegal nets at Table Rock Lake and selling the caviar in Tennessee. Thomas Jerry Nix ...

Muscle tissue and eggs from 30 paddlefish snagged this month do not test positive for any effects from the January oil pipeline spill in the Yellowstone River in Montana. State Game and Fish ...

The odd-looking pre-historic paddlefish is threatened in many states. However, in some, like Minnesota, its numbers are growing. And local officials are tracking the fish's numbers and locations.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says a January oil pipeline spill on the Yellowstone River did not affect paddlefish. The agency says muscle tissue and eggs from 30 ...