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Waterfowl numbers take a dive during 2024 breeding duck survey in Minnesota

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If you’re looking for one factor that influenced the subpar results of Minnesota’s 2024 Waterfowl Breeding Population Survey, the spring weather played an outsized role.
“It’s was one of the strangest springs I can remember, said Bruce Davis, supervisor for the Minnesota DNR’s Wetland Wildlife Research Group in Bemidji, who flew the annual aerial survey. In short, mallard, Canada goose, and overall duck abundance – estimates all – were down from last year. Blue-winged teal were up.

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One Minnesota hunter’s favorite fowl is quite a dove story

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Count Tom Kalahar, of Olivia, Minn., as one bird hunter who is miffed by dove hunting’s lack of popularity in Minnesota.
“I really don’t understand it,” said the 71-year-old outdoorsman and retired conservation technician with the Renville County Soil and Water Conservation District. “In the South, dove hunting is a time-honored tradition, and opening weekend is like a holiday. But it hasn’t really caught on here, which is a little surprising.”

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CDC clarifies its recent ‘dog import’ guidelines, but it’s not good enough, says one hunter advocacy group

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After a backlash from sporting groups and various lawmakers, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its canine travel importation guidelines affecting U.S. hunters with dogs returning from Canada.
The new guidelines – which still violate two existing federal acts, according to one national sportsmen’s group threatening litigation – went into effect Aug. 1 and are “much clearer and simpler” than those previously handed down by the CDC in June, according to Ducks Unlimited.

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Officials say a big ‘flush’ of southeast Minnesota streams has been good for fish habitat

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After two-plus years of drought and low water that hampered stream-trout fishing throughout southeastern Minnesota, recent heavy spring summer rains have significantly improved stream conditions across the region, according to state officials and regional fishing guides.
Sediment and in-stream vegetation – long, green mats or clusters in some instances that rendered some streams unfishable – have been “flushed” from many watersheds, clearing out pools and exposing rocky runs important to fish spawning.

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Lake Superior’s cisco boom is creating many big fish

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It’s a good time to be a Lake Superior angler.
Last year, Minnesota DNR fisheries biologists found huge numbers of 1-year-old ciscoes, or lake herring, in their survey nets. It turned out to be a historic year-class from 2022 for a forage fish that serves as the base for Lake Superior’s fishy food chain. Lake trout, Chinook and coho salmon, steelhead, and even walleyes have taken advantage of the herring boom, state officials, charter boat captains, and others say, and are growing bigger and fatter.

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Minnesota Pollution Control Agency seeks comments on plan to curb pollution in state waters

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State conservation and environmental groups – including Minnesota Trout Unlimited – are encouraging the public to comment on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s proposed changes to two feedlot permit rules designed to reduce nitrate pollution statewide.
These permits, directed at the state’s largest animal feedlots, ”regulate the discharge of pollutants from livestock production areas and restrict the volume of pollutants entering state waters via manure land application,” according to the MPCA. The public comment period, which includes MPCA-staffed educational forums to answer questions, runs through Aug. 9.

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A new decal seeks to help anglers spare wild steelhead in Minnesota

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Officials at Minnesota Sea Grant are offering a new, quick-and-easy educational tool to help anglers distinguish between wild steelhead and coho and Chinook salmon caught in Lake Superior and its tributary streams and rivers.
The organization has a free “Know the Fish. Know the Reg” decal that explains the visual differences between the fish, which are considered near-doppelgangers by anglers, guides, and state natural resources officials.

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