Fishing

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

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

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

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

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

Pinnacles National Monument, Calif. (AP) – No. 286 was the old man of this park’s California condor restoration program. Hatched in a zoo seven years ago, he learned to live in the wild, a hopeful

Missoula, Mont. (AP) – The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership in Missoula is mapping favorite hunting spots in Montana in hopes of avoiding conflicts between hunters and oil and gas developers. The map is based on

Concord, N.H. (AP) – Saltwater anglers off New Hampshire’s coast would need a fishing license under legislation sent to the governor by the Senate on Wednesday. Licenses for individuals would be $15 starting in 2011.