September 14, 2006
Perch, salmon success highlights current Michigan angling
SOUTHERN LOWER Lake St. Clair Perch fishing is heating up on Lake St. Clair. Anglers report decent action off Nine Mile Road, Ten Mile Road, and Eleven Mile Road, at the Clinton River Spillway and off Metro Beach, on minnows fished in 8 to 16 feet of water. Anglers must move around to stay on
Top fish management posts changing faces
By Mike Moore Editor Columbus — The leadership in the fisheries section of the DNR Division of Wildlife will look much different in October. Gary Isbell, the division’s fish management and research chief in Columbus, is retiring at the end of this month after 28 years with the Division of Wildlife. Ray Petering, an assistant
PGC ponders geese regs changes
By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — Although federal wildlife officials this summer removed nearly all restraints on killing resident geese – allowing states such as Pennsylvania to come to grips with nuisance geese problems – Game Commission officials are taking a careful approach to changing hunting regulations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to
Feds to allow August goose hunt
By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Lansing — A new federal rule that would allow states to set a Canada goose-hunting season as early as Aug. 1 is now official. The rule – similar in ways to a “conservation order” that permits the hunting of light geese in the spring – allows the use of electronic
DNR investigating Huron fish die-off
By Bill Parker Editor Alpena, Mich. — A recent fish die-off in northern Lake Huron has resulted in more questions than answers. The good news is that DNR fisheries biologists believe it was an isolated incident. They have not received any additional reports of dead fish washing up on shore following the initial incident in
150 dead deer, 11 convicted in poaching cases
By Mike Moore Editor Xenia, Ohio — On the eve of another deer hunting season, wildlife officers and investigators in southwest Ohio made one of the state’s biggest poaching arrests in history. In all, 11 people were charged from a year-long investigation in two separate cases that involved the illegal shooting of 150 deer and
Mon shrimp finding puzzles scientists
By Deborah Weisberg Contributing Writer Pittsburgh — A creature you’d expect to find in the Louisiana Delta appears to have taken up residence in the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh. Shrimp – not the jumbo kind seen on restaurant menus, but its smaller cousin the grass shrimp – were captured by scientists bottom trawling a 40-mile
