Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Green Bay ‘trib’ violations not as bad as it was made to sound
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 17, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
May 13, 2024
Celebrating 100 years of the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Drazkowski grew up in Winona, exploring the federal refuge with a fervor and curiosity nurtured by his father and grandfather that has never relented.
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WI Daily Update: Great jumbo perch fishing on the Mississippi River
Thanks to improving water clarity and more vegetation, jumbo perch
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MN Daily Update: Great jumbo perch fishing on the Mississippi River
Thanks to improving water clarity and more vegetation, jumbo perch
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Wisconsin’s historic Spooner fish hatchery building to undergo renovation
One of the oldest buildings in Spooner, Wis., will soon receive a badly needed face lift as Friends Into Spooner Fish Hatchery (FISH) plan to renovate a building built in 1913.
That building served as the area’s first fish hatchery, and sits on the south side of Hwy. 70 across from the DNR’s regional headquarters in Spooner.
“We hope to begin working on this project as soon weather permits,” said Jim Bishop, FISH’s renovation project leader. “The old building is in rough shape.”
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Patrick Durkin: Show folks a sturgeon, they’ll tell you a story
First, they made the morning headlines April 22 by not landing on the nation’s endangered species list (ESL). The Center for Biological Diversity claims lake sturgeon are “imperiled,” and had petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put them on the ESL even though sturgeon doing well in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Hours later, the prehistoric fish made more headlines when news broke of a Wisconsin-based lake sturgeon turning up in a research net 651 miles from home on the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri. In other words, just another day in the media spotlight that shines often on Wisconsin’s “dinosaur fish,” our version of charismatic megafauna.
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