For more than a quarter century, Northern Ohio lawmakers from both parties have been trying to land the bill without success.

Today in Ohio podcast exposes how seemingly harmless discussions about walleye create an illusion of normalcy while critical ...

After failing to land the big catch last year, lawmakers have cast their line again to hook the walleye as the state fish.

While the Ohio House passed House Bill 599 last June to designate the state fish as sander vitreus, commonly known as the walleye, the proposal didn’t advance in the Ohio Senate. The walleye ...

Not everyone is hooked on the proposal. State Rep ... opposes specifically naming the walleye as Ohio’s state fish. “I would do a smallmouth bass because it’s heavily in our river system ...

Ohio has a fish to fry when it comes to naming an official aquatic representative for the state. An effort to name a state fish has had a multi-year battle since 2003, with lawmakers recently ...

As far as high-profile bills go at the Ohio Statehouse, a proposal to make the walleye the official state fish of Ohio is a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A years-long effort to crown the walleye as Ohio’s state fish again drowned at the Statehouse. Ohio’s 135th General Assembly ended in December, meaning any proposal ...