Fishing

Richmond, VA – The Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries are directing ongoing scientific studies this year in preparation for potential fish kills. Spring 2009 investigations will focus on

Reno, Nev. (AP) – On the wind-swept desert of northern Nevada, spring in one tiny town has been welcomed for years with a festival to a celebrated group of visitors – migrating loons. Perilously clumsy

Grand Forks, N.D. (AP) – A man shown in a photo kneeling beside a live deer with a snowmobile on top of the animal has lost his hunting privileges for two years. Steven Bonderud of

Salem, Ore. – May 4 is the deadline to purchase big game raffle hunt tickets for the chance to win a special extended-season tag to hunt deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep or Rocky Mountain

Annapolis, Md. – The Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review (AELR) Committee of the General Assembly approved emergency regulations for summer flounder size limits, as suggested by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Service.

Olympia – Anglers looking forward to trout season’s opening day on Saturday, April 25, are advised that Jefferson County Public Health and Washington State Parks have closed public access to Anderson Lake in Jefferson County

The recreational harvest season for snook will close beginning May 1 in all of Florida’s Gulf of Mexico, Everglades National Park and Monroe County coastal and inland waters. The harvest season for snook will remain

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Mosquito Control Section is again asking the public’s help in monitoring West Nile virus by reporting sick or dead wild birds that may have contracted the virus,