...morning, Lewis loaded his fish into a cooler and drove to the Wildlife Resources Division office in Thomson, where fisheries biologist Ed Bettross determined the still-breathing fish weighed 2 pounds, 9 ounces, besting the previous Georgia record...

The rectangular lakes on either side of Gordon Highway look like great places to fish.But when Georgia fisheries biologist Ed Bettross checked the public ponds last week, something was noticeably missing: most of the fish.Using electrofishing...

...catfish were raised at the state hatchery near Dearing, and are already close to catchable size, said regional fisheries biologist Ed Bettross."We initially had planned to use fingerlings, but these will be the bigger fish," he said...

Fisheries biologists from the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division Thomson office on...bass will be stocked, according to East Central Georgia regional fisheries biologist Ed Bettross.The fish are coming from the McDuffie Public Fishing...

...simpler name."My parents called me Bubba from the git-go, so I've had it all my life," the retired state fisheries biologist said. "Anybody with a name like mine probably needs a nickname anyway."Watson's Masters triumph, he added...

...S. Army Corps of Engineers have tagged 50 fish that could "reel in" prizes for some lucky anglers.Corps' Fisheries Biologist Jamie Sykes and Natural Resource Specialist Jess Fleming visited numerous coves around the lake and tagged multiple...

...Ogeechee's waters for about a month before officials deemed the river safe to reopen in mid-June.Last week, fishery biologists restocked the river with more than 300,000 fish, including bluegill and redbreast.Still, Wedincamp said her...

...according to a report released Wednesday that concludes 12,522 fish were killed.The 11-page summary, compiled by fisheries biologists from Georgia's Wildlife Resources Division, categorizes the event as "severe" and determined that water quality...

...providers for 5,000 tons, with the option to add 2,000 tons if needed.Jamie Sikes, the corps' district fisheries biologist, said the system will be used as needed from June through September, when a phenomenon known as the "thermal...

...the cooler. It was just huge."After buying a bigger cooler, Taylor took his catch to Thomson, where Georgia fisheries biologist Ed Bettross confirmed its weight, measured its length at 46.5 inches and estimated its age at about 15 years...