A paddlefish, seen here at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center near Athens, Texas, uses its spatulalike bill to detect plankton. Its eggs are valuable as caviar, but it is illegal to sell the fish ...

MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. — Three people have been arrested for illegally catching and transporting paddlefish and their eggs, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. “After 13 hours of ...

State Game and Fish Department fisheries chief Greg Power said Game and Fish and North Star Caviar, a nonprofit group that processes paddlefish eggs into caviar for sale, had samples analyzed to find ...

In the spring when the paddlefish emerge from the reservoirs to spawn, a 75-pound female may lay 400,000 BB-sized eggs, Nagel said. The egg mass could weigh as much as 15 pounds. Once the paddlefish ...