Fishing

New York wildlife biologists don’t see all-day spring gobbler hunting in the state’s near future, even though it’s a move neighboring states like Pennsylvania and Ohio have made in recent years

DEC has loosened its summer flounder (fluke), scup (porgy) and black sea bass regulations in light of data that shows those fish stocks are healthier than originally believed

Mike Giarraputo is the first to tell anyone that his encounter and subsequent harvest of a buck that set a new state record might just be “one of the more uneventful big buck stories out

Some iffy weather, courtesy of a cold front that swept across the state on the first morning of New York’s two-day youth turkey hunt, likely impacted harvest numbers this year.

A proposed three-day youth deer hunt over the Columbus Day weekend has remained intact as DEC moves toward regulatory approval of several portions of its five-year deer management plan.