Fishing

By Bob Hecker Contributing Writer Columbus — Proponents of gun-ownership rights in Ohio can feel confident that the state’s next governor likely will be on their side. The two major-party gubernatorial candidates in the Nov.

By Steve Pollick Contributing Writer Port Clinton, Ohio — The state’s three-year Lake Erie yellow perch racketeering investigation “raises serious questions about the future of commercial fishing on the lake,” Gov. Bob Taft said here

By Jeffrey L. Frischkorn Contributing Writer Athens, Ohio — With fingers crossed and a breathed sigh of relief, Ohio’s forest game biologists are hopeful about this year’s wild turkey hatch. It wasn’t that way just

DNR Reports Marietta, Ohio — Three Tennessee men arrested in May for possessing 1,763 pounds of mussels from the Muskingum River were convicted of 15 charges related to the incident, according to the DNR Division

By Frank Hinchey Contributing Writer Toledo, Ohio — A war of words is being waged between Ohio and two Oklahoma Indian tribes who say they are trying to reclaim millions of acres of ancestral land

By Mike Moore Editor Sandusky, Ohio — Ohio fisheries biologists have a theory on the spring walleye spawning run on the Sandusky River in northwest Ohio. “We’ve long suspected that some large number are not

By Bob Hecker Contributing Writer Columbus — The 2007 federal budget will likely include another $500,000 for an Ohio State University study of an oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. OSU scientists familiar

By Frank Hinchey Contributing Writer Columbus — If a new bill is approved by state lawmakers, this could be the last season for commercial fishing on Lake Erie. Newly introduced legislation in the Ohio General