Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufman breaks down this year’s checklist changes from the American Ornithological Society.

In an attempt to limit some of the interactions between Alaska’s aquaculture operations and wild species, researchers have ...

This undated photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows alewives, a species of river herring at a fish run in North Kingstown, R.I.

Pacific herring are a food staple for everything from salmon to orcas. Some 15,000 tons of herring used to return to spawn at Cherry Point, just south of Birch Bay between Bellingham and Blaine.

Alewives, a species of river herring, swim at a fish run in North Kingstown, R.I. The National Marine Fisheries Service is looking at the health of the alewife and blueback herring populations to ...

They could potentially be listed as “threatened” or “endangered.” The Natural Resources Defense Council submitted a petition requesting listing of the river herring species in 2011.