Slimy sculpin are an unassuming cold water stream fish in desperate need of a major public relations makeover. “Slimy” in the name alone is one strike against them (they really aren’t slimy ...

The biologist described the slimy sculpin as a small fish that isn't able to move around very well and stays on the bottom of the streams. 'That's why I call it the fish of the future' 8 years ago ...

PELHAM - In a move that's bound to make lots of slimy sculpin happy, workers removed the first stone from an 1820 dam on Amethyst Brook here on Wednesday, opening up another nine miles of upstream ...

Think finding a bottom-hopping, scaleless fish in the Rouge River isn’t enough to get people excited? Not when it’s the slimy sculpin, recorded in the Rouge for the first time in 26 years. Scientists ...

And researchers from the U.S. Forest Service and Dartmouth College have recently observed Atlantic salmon, slimy sculpin and longnose dace swimming upstream -- species that hadn't been recorded ...

This story was originally published by Northern Journal. On the morning of Aug. 9, state biologists discovered dozens of dead fish in a creek near the Kensington gold mine in Southeast Alaska ...

Led by Phaedra Budy, head of the Fish Ecology Lab at Utah State University, a team of researchers first identified four lakes populated by arctic char and slimy sculpin around Toolik Field Station ...

This included mostly 2- to 3-inch long wild brown trout, as well as other species such as Slimy Sculpin and Longnose Dace (minnows), commission Communications Director Mike Parker said in an email.

During that visit by helicopter in 2018, O’Donnell, Koch and USGS biologist Mike Carey noticed “a complete loss of resident fish — like Dolly Varden and slimy sculpin,” Koch said.

But he noted, it was “still far below what we observed in the 70s, 80s and 90s.” Many benthic prey fish, including natives like slimy sculpin, remain “in very low abundance.” ...

The Lake Michigan prey fish biomass, including alewife, increased in 2018, and the average weight of 3-year-old female chinook was heaviest since 1986.