CHARLESTON — West Virginia has taken a significant step to protect headwater streams by designating more than 170 miles of waterways as “trout waters” based on new survey results.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – West Virginia is establishing stream-side conservation measures based on new survey results. The ...

Now, native brook trout compete with browns and rainbows for critical habitat. Nevertheless, many hidden streams and creeks scattered throughout the East are still filled with native brookies. Small ...

There’s not a prettier sight in the spring than a native brook trout. Interestingly, brook trout aren’t really trout, but char and are closely related to Arctic Char, Dolly Varden and Lake Trout. If ...

Brook trout found in Shannon Run on Laurel Hill. For our series, Reporting From the Mon, we’re talking to people with different perspectives on the Monongahela River. For this interview, we head east ...

Brook trout, scientifically known as Salvelinus fontinalis —the "little salmon of the fountain"—had lost their fountains, the clear, cool, richly oxygenated waters they need to survive. By 1879, ...