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November 26, 2024

New tools and tackle to elevate your ice catch this winter

Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, National Fishing /

Ice anglers again have reason to be excited about the new fish-catching tools available for 2024-25 hard water.
Tungsten jigs and lures remain at the forefront, while some new additions to old lures and spoons should increase their fish productivity even more. Glow jigs and spoons that make a lot of noise and shed light are sure to be hot items, as are rods and reels designed for specific fish species and fishing situations.

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Lawsuit against New York DEC, Delaware, and New Jersey targets Atlantic sturgeon commercial bycatch

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, New York, News /

Four affiliated parties, including Riverkeeper, Inc. and Tracy Brown, the Hudson Riverkeeper, on Oct. 24 sued the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, alleging that the DEC has failed to comply with the provisions of the federal Endangered Species Act with respect to Atlantic sturgeon.
The plaintiffs have brought similar actions against the states of New Jersey and Delaware.

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Commentary: Blazing a trail through Minnesota to the 1964 Wilderness Act

Featured, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

A band of Minnesotans was instrumental in blazing the trail that led to passage of the Wilderness Act on Sept. 3, 1964, now six decades ago.
That path cut through the Land of 10,000 Lakes, with the effort beginning in the early 1920s and threading through Minneapolis, Ely, and into the Superior National Forest to what would be named the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, now the nation’s most visited wilderness area.

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Jim Gilmore joins Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council

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Jim Gilmore, former director of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Marine Resources, was appointed to serve as a member on the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council. He was appointed in June.
As a council member, Gilmore joins the voting member trustees of MAFMC that includes 13 citizen voting members, seven state officials representing marine fisheries agencies from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, and one regional administrator from the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Greater Atlantic Regional Office.

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