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March 7, 2025

Fed’s cuts magnifying invasive sea lamprey concerns for Great Lakes fisheries

The Great Lakes Fisheries Commission is reassessing its sea lamprey program for 2025 following federal layoffs at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that provides the manpower to control the invasive critters.
“We’re still assessing the full impact, so it’s a pretty fluid situation,” Greg McClinchey, the GLFC’s director of political and legislative affairs, told Michigan Outdoor News. “We’re working as fast as we can to come up with an approach and a strategy for the 2025 season.”

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Amanda Lefton appointed as acting commissioner of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation

Nearly a year after then-commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Basil M. Seggos announced his resignation, Gov. Kathy Hochul has nominated a successor to serve as acting commissioner. 
The governor recently announced Amanda Lefton, a former director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, will fill the office of DEC commissioner, which since Seggos’ resignation had been handled by Executive Deputy Commissioner Sean Mahar.  

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Bill Hilts, Jr.: Reel maintenance is important for fishing success

The stage is set. You are feeling lucky as you are out fishing in Lake Ontario in early May off Wilson, N.Y. Fishing has been very good for king salmon and the spring Lake Ontario Counties Salmon and Trout Derby is going on. One big fish is all it takes for a $15,000 check. 
“Fish on” as the downrigger releases and the line starts screaming out of the reel. However, something is wrong. The drag is not acting as it should as it stops and starts sporadically.

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Steve Pollick: Ohioans mark buzzards ‘return’ as a sign of spring, but what if they never left?

The 68th annual Buzzard Day celebrations in and around Hinckley, Ohio, are set for the weekend of March 15 and 16, and they are as much a sign of the end of winter and start of spring as the annual walleye runs of the Sandusky and Maumee rivers and the emergence of skunk cabbage and other early wildflowers.

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