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Fishing license fee hike is discussed

Harrisburg – Like a slow NASCAR driver, the Pennsylvania Game Commission may soon get lapped. Officials within the commission tried talking to state lawmakers about getting a license fee increase in 2003. They were told

Corps blocks Susquehanna dam plan

From AP, Staff Reports Wilkes-Barre, Pa. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced earlier this month that it is denying a permit for an inflatable dam to be built across the Susquehanna River here.

PGC changes deer program in 4 units

Harrisburg – Pennsylvania game commissioners have given preliminary approval to a change in the structure of the firearms deer season, based on the promise of a study that it hasn’t started, has no money for,

PF&BC announces major Susquehanna River probe

Harrisburg – With no smoking gun to point to for the die-off of young smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna River in the summers of 2005 and 2007, nor for what appears to be an ongoing

Hog dilemma proves vexing for agency

Harrisburg – For Pennsylvania game commissioners, wild hogs present the worst sort of conundrum. They want the destructive pests destroyed, but they are afraid to ask hunters to kill them. At their quarterly meeting in

Early trout season is possible in southwest

Harrisburg – At a meeting of their Fisheries Committee sometime in the next few weeks, Pennsylvania Board of Fish & Boat commissioners will consider a proposal to expand the area of the state having the

Walleye Fishing with Terry Tuma

Terry Tuma’s interview with the Minnesota DNR on Walleye Fishing. Special thanks to the DNR for the permission to post this. (36:36)

Pa. poaching fines may go way up

Pittsburgh – While hunters lament the low number of white-tailed deer in some parts of Pennsylvania, poachers are having a field day. Laws without teeth and archaic fines have made the state – second only

Proposed changes seem to suit nobody

Harrisburg – Before the Game Commission met to consider proposed changes to its deer-hunting seasons, it seemed nobody had a good thing to say about them. Criticism was already being leveled at the agency from

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