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April 8, 2025

Ohio Insider: Fines don’t fit the crimes in recent walleye scandals from Lake Erie

A story came across my desk just as we were wrapping up the last news cycle that I thought was worth more attention.
The story brought me to this conclusion: Greed is the downfall of the world. To give you some background on what brought me to this conclusion, consider two recent Lake Erie walleye poaching cases.

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Michigan DNR will get $38 million in federal excise taxes

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will get $38.7 million from the federal government through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program.
Funds supporting this program are generated through self-imposed excise taxes paid by sportsmen and sportswomen on a variety of hunting, fishing, and boating goods. This year’s allocation is $1.1 million less than last year.

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SCOTUS punts on challenge to New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act’s “sensitive” areas

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 7 declined to take up a challenge to gun laws in New York that ban firearms from certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character.”
The high court did not give an explanation on why it chose not to hear the Antonyuk v. James case.

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Equine disease confirmed in Pennsylvania wild turkey

In a strange development, a mosquito-transmitted virus that is deadly to horses has been confirmed in a wild turkey in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Keith George, coordinator of the Mosquito-borne Disease Control Program for the Luzerne Conservation District, said a wild turkey in the county was confirmed to have Eastern equine encephalitis late last year. News of the confirmation was released earlier this month to ensure agency protocols were followed, he said.

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Commentary: Mentorships mean everything in the outdoors

As a child growing up in a suburb just east of downtown Columbus, Ohio, I never really imagined that I would ever become a hunter.
My father, a World War II U.S. Coast Guard/U.S. Navy veteran, who later became a professor with his masters degree and Ph.d., taught me how to fish at an early age. He also instructed me in any sport that interested me … baseball, football, and basketball.

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