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Ohio’s Magee Marsh ‘bird’ center refurbished, rededicated

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

On May 4, during one of the first pleasant mornings in recent weeks, a multitude of Ohio DNR (ODNR) and Division of Wildlife (DOW) personnel, U.S. Fish and Wildlife staff, local, federal and state legislators, agency heads, tourism leaders, members of the media, and many other well-wishers celebrated the re-opening of the former Magee Marsh Sportsmen’s Migratory Bird Center.

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Hunt is on now for Ohio’s bountiful wild asparagus

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio /

Feral asparagus plants frequently are found within ditch banks, which lie within the public right-of-way that are used for electric and telephone lines.
Fresh and tender asparagus cooked within hours of its harvest is as good as it gets and blows away any days-old specimens arriving at your local grocer from Mexico or California.

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Judge’s ruling requires a Lake Erie ‘diet’ study to address harmful algal blooms

Featured, National News, News, Ohio /

After coursing through the legal system for the past six years, U.S. District Court Judge James Carr issued a consent decree on May 4 to address the algal bloom problems plaguing Western Lake Erie. 
This move formalizes the agreement that the plaintiffs, including the Environmental Law Policy Center (ELPC) and the Lucas County Commissioners and the defendants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio EPA worked out to begin a clean-up plan to try to control harmful algal blooms.

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VHS confirmed in East Harbor fish kill on Lake Erie

National News, News, Ohio /

On April 14, as a group of fishermen motored through the East Harbor channel into Lake Erie en route to some walleye fishing around the islands, scores of large Gizzard shad were seen floating on the surface of the water.
Since shad are susceptible to winter kill and cold shock, it came as no surprise to see them. However, later in the day came a report of dead bluegills, black crappies, yellow perch, and largemouth bass.

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Ohio State Trappers Association fur auction shows improved prices for pelts

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

There was an uptick in buyer interest for fur at the Kidron auction, where more than 70 fur harvesters registered to sell their lots and 15 to 20 buyers purchased a total of 3,259 pelts. A look at the good, bad and ugly when it comes to prices from the auction.

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Good fishing expected to continue on Lake Erie as quotas are set

Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, News, Ohio /

For walleyes, the total allowable catch (TAC) will be 13,526,00 fish, a 7% decrease from last year’s TAC of 14,533,000, but up from 2021 (12,284,000), 2020 (10,237,000), and 2019 (8,531,000) fish respectively.  
Ohio will be allowed a walleye quota of 6,913,000 fish, Ontario gets 5,824,000 fish and Michigan was allotted 789,000 fish, respectively. The Eastern Basin walleye population is managed separately from the rest of the lake, but the jurisdictions of Ontario, Pennsylvania, and New York still use lakewide objectives to determine appropriate harvest levels there.

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River walleye runs in Ohio hit their fever pitch

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Ohio /

Even as the mild winter has morphed into a cool spring, the spawning runs of walleyes going into the Sandusky and Maumee rivers have gained steam anyway, as evidenced by the increasing success of anglers wading in after them. With an estimated 94 million 2-year and older walleyes in the 2023 population according to the biologists serving on the Lake Erie Committee, there is bound to be a noticeable uptick in the number of fish choosing one of the rivers to spawn in. 

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