Rusty Pritchard was the only spoonbill guide on Grand Lake in 1997 when, as a high school sophomore, he started showing anglers how to catch the Oklahoma marlin. "I was probably the only spoonbill ...

David Cox is 69 years old. Emphysema makes every breath a challenge. Doctors have put so many stents in his heart that he’s lost count. And he hobbles on a bum leg overdue for surgery. None of that, ...

Nearly one year after pleading guilty to illegally harvesting paddlefish in the Ohio River, the son-in-law of Indiana's former "Caviar King" was sentenced last week in federal court. Joseph Schigur of ...

A years-long wildlife poaching investigation that sent Indiana caviar king David Cox to federal prison in 2018 has now netted Cox's son-in-law. Joseph Schigur of English pleaded guilty Tuesday to ...

It's a long way from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the banks of Grand Lake. But the hard times the European caviar industry is experiencing are being felt in Oklahoma and elsewhere in the United ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Paddlefish Research Center in the northeast part of the state has already processed at least 300 fish for anglers this spring. When it comes to ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 17, 2012 (ENS) – Two Kentuckians and their caviar companies pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to trafficking in and falsely ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 15 (Reuters) - Conservation officials in Missouri on Friday welcomed the federal charges filed this week against eight people accused of poaching paddlefish and selling their ...

Many of the nation's caviar lovers who rang in the millennium feasting on fish roe may have unwittingly supped on a U.S. protected species: the American paddlefish. Stylish celebrants at numerous New ...

The buzz of an outboard motor sends pelicans skyward as Charlie Hopkins' skiff glides along the Ohio River to paddlefish nets placed beneath the murky surface. The snowy-white birds watch from a ...