The Center for Biological Diversity notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today that it intends to sue the agency for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protection for the Clear Lake ...

CLEAR LAKE — The time is fast approaching when a native fish species known as the Clear Lake hitch should begin their yearly run up tributaries around the lake to produce a new generation of young.

This February, after long-anticipated rains deluged California, causing creek beds to overflow and turning fields into marshland, the spawning runs of a sacred, highly endangered fish—the Clear Lake ...

In May 2024, Clear Lake, California’s largest freshwater lake, which is next to an abandoned mercury mine, turned a sickly shade of emerald green, capturing the attention of NASA scientists and ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the Clear Lake Hitch, a large minnow found nowhere else in the world outside Lake County and the Clear Lake watershed, as a threatened species.

Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, ranging from tiny gobies and zebrafish to gigantic tunas and whale sharks. They provide vital sustenance to billions of people worldwide via fisheries ...