MORA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Mora National Fish Hatchery is the only hatchery in the world dedicated to raising the threatened Gila trout for both recovery and conservation purposes. And after ...

The New Mexico Game and Fish Department wants to use a pesticide that some scientists say could pose health risks for humans and other species to help re-establish the native Gila trout population in ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae gilae) is endemic to mountain streams in the Gila, San Francisco, Agua Fria, and Verde river drainages in New Mexico and Arizona. Gila trout was ...

One of two Gila trout found by state and federal biologists in New Mexico’s West Fork of the Gila River nearly a year after the Whitewater-Baldy fire and subsequent flooding. Credit: Jill Wick/NM ...

From tiger muskie at Bluewater Lake to trout at Bonito Lake, New Mexico anglers are having success with various baits and ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is making progress on increasing the reproduction of one of the rarest trout species in the United States. NMDGF said progress has ...

After the nearly 300,000-acre Whitewater-Baldy fire tore through the Gila Wilderness last summer, biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service geared up for a trek ...

As firefighters worked Friday to corral the wildfires burning around the West, a special team of biologists tried to save a threatened trout in southwestern New Mexico from the post-fire ravages - ...

Ash and charred debris from the largest wildfire in New Mexico's history are threatening the survival of the Gila trout. Biologists are trying to save the fish by using electroshock to temporarily ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Biologists are trying to save a threatened trout in southwestern New Mexico from the post-wildfire ravages, even as crews nearby and around the West struggle to contain blazes that ...