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Old Reel Collectors Assoc. gathers in New York’s Warren County

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Dozens of collectors of old and antique fishing equipment and memorabilia gathered on the shores of Lake George in New York last month for the annual Old Reel Collectors Association (ORCA) convention, packing a lakeside resort with thousands of antique items to display, sell or trade and show off to the public.
The event was about much more than commerce, though. Camaraderie was a big part as well, as ORCA members gathered to fish, judge historic equipment, toured Lake George in historic boats, take part in seminars to learn more about their hobby and more.

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Divers examine aquatic plant life in New York’s Warren County waters

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Nick Rowell and Jake Dunkley emerged from the waters of Brant Lake holding a variety of small plants, tossing out names such as bladderwort and pondweed. They dove up and down in the shallows of the lake for hours, collecting samples and photographing the underwater plant life in the northern Warren County lake as boats and anglers passed nearby.

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Cormorant sightings on the rise on New York’s Lake George

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Fish-eating cormorants continue to generate complaints on New York’s Lake George, where anglers, boaters and residents are seeing them expanding their range on the lake this summer, potentially damaging islands where they hadn’t been present in the past.
Diamond Island, a popular state-owned island in the 32-mile long lake’s south end that is open to the public as a day use picnic and swimming spot, is among the islands that has been frequented by the large birds for the first time this summer.

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New smartphone app caters to New York’s Salmon River anglers

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Todd William loves to fish New York’s Salmon River fall salmon and trout runs, but living in Vermont makes it tough to keep up with conditions, river changes and other important developments that greatly affect the fishing.
Knowing where to access the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries, water levels and which species are moving upstream and other factors that change rapidly are key to success during the fall tributary runs.

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Fisheries staff from New York discuss culverts and trout with highway crews

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Rob Fiorentino, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 5 Fisheries Manager, spent a couple of days in mid-May at a dude ranch in the southern Adirondacks, trying to show highway workers how best to take care of the trout-filled streams that run underneath their roads.

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Department of Health updates New York’s fish consumption advisories

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For the first time in more than five decades, everyone in the family can legally eat fish they catch in the stretch of the Hudson River in New York from Catskill south. The New York State Department of Health relaxed its fish advisories earlier this spring, changing a consumption ban on the lower Hudson among a host of changes that include new advisories on other waters.
New warnings on eating fish were issued for the Great Lakes, some of them related to forever chemicals known as PFAS and/or PFOS.

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Kayaker drowns in New York’s Schroon River

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The cold waters of a popular Adirondack trout stream claimed the life of a downstate man on May 10 after he fell from a kayak and apparently drowned.
Sohail A. Nabi, 21, of Yonkers, Westchester County, was staying at a short-term rental home in Warrensburg with fellow students from Colgate University when he fell from a boat in a fairly calm section of the river.

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Research efforts showing promise toward restoring American chestnut trees

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150 years ago, the American chestnut tree was one of the most important food sources in the woods for wildlife in much of the United States.
Chestnuts were the most abundant hardwood tree in the eastern United States, making up an estimated 25 to 30 percent of the eastern hardwood forest. That changed in the early 20th century, when a fungal blight that was accidentally imported from Asia all but wiped out the American chestnut.

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