Fishing
Free fishing days ahead for everyone on June 6-7
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) has announced that 2009 Free Fishing Days will be June 6-7, in coordination with National Fishing Week. On these days, anglers of all ages may fish without
Drawing Deadline Looms for California’s Big Game Hunters
Hunters applying for premium deer, elk, antelope or bighorn sheep tags have only a few weeks left to turn in an application. All big game drawing applications must be received at the California Department of
Uncased firearms, other G&F issues pass at Capitol
St. Paul – Legislation that increases the minimum muskie size limit statewide, allows bow anglers to fish at night, and gives hunters in certain instances the ability to move without casing their guns or bows
Inshore fishing keeps Florida anglers’ business afloat
Pensacola, Fla. (AP) – Big boats, deep water and red snapper. Those three things have been a magic combination for generations of Gulf Coast charter fishermen, who made their living putting tourists on fish out
Anglers warned Pinto Lake fish unsafe to eat
Watsonville, Calif. (AP) – Pinto Lake anglers are being warned not to eat their catch because fish in the 80-acre Watsonville lake are contaminated with unsafe levels of DDT, a pesticide banned more than three
SDSU scientists study sturgeon
Brookings, S.D. (AP) – Two South Dakota State University wildlife and fisheries sciences faculty members have gotten a five-year, $647,000 Army Corps of Engineers grant to study the endangered pallid sturgeon. Brian Graeb and Steven
Feds reject coaster brook trout as endangered
Traverse City, Mich. (AP) – Federal officials have decided against placing the coaster brook trout on the endangered species list, even though the fish has become increasingly rare after long flourishing in the upper Great
Conn. police arrest 4 accused of poaching
Kent, Conn. (AP) – Four people have been charged with poaching in northwestern Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection Environmental Conservation Police arrested the four over the weekend on charges related to alleged illegal wild turkey
2007 fire caused decline in Hanford elk
Kennewick, Wash. (AP) – Wildlife officials say a wildfire on the Hanford Reach National Monument in southeast Washington led to a small decline in the size of its elk herd. Still, Mike Livingston, district wildlife
