Episode 595 – 80M pounds of fish harvested in MN? New licensing system, and latest CWD headlines

Tim Lesmeister and Rob Drieslein start the show with some fishing chatter in Minnesota and Alaska, then review new research that suggests Minnesotans catch and keep 80 million pounds of freshwater fish in the state every year – more than double the previous estimate. Then Kelly Straka, the Minnesota DNR’s Fish and Wildlife Division director, spends two segments introducing the new state Electronic Licensing System that will go live this Tuesday, June 9. If you want to learn more about how you’ll be buying your hunting license via this system, give Straka your attention. Lesmeister returns, then he and Drieslein break down some of the latest headlines involving chronic wasting disease, first at the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming, then new research on the mysterious species barrier between cervidae (deer and elk) and people.