Fishing
Man accused of smuggling songbirds from Vietnam
Los AngelesS (AP) _ A man was charged Tuesday with smuggling songbirds into the United States by hiding more than a dozen of them in an elaborate, custom-tailored pair of leggings during a flight from
Arkansas fishing report of May 6
CENTRAL ARKANSAS:Lake Conway: Water is murky and high, and that everything was doing really good before all this rain. Bream are biting well on worms and crickets. Crappie are biting near cypress trees on minnows,
PF&BC reports: A trout costs $2.73
Champion, Pa. – Fishermen have long wondered just how much of their license dollar goes to raise and stock a trout. Pennsylvania’s fish & boat commissioners have wondered as well, and at January’s commission meeting,
Commissioner: Let’s back up on crossbows in bow season
Harrisburg – Just when you thought the crossbows-in-archery-season blaze had finally died down, gasoline was abruptly thrown on the fire. As expected, Pennsylvania game commissioners, at their April meeting, gave final approval to a minor
ODNR:_Bear sightings will increase
Akron – During the next few months, Ohioans could expect to see more black bears as the young bruins leave their mothers in search of their own territory. In 2008, approximately 29 different black bears
PF&BC bows to pressure, delays mussel action
Champion, Pa. – It seems as though a mussel just can’t catch a break. Pennsylvania’s Fish & Boat Commissioners have now twice postponed action to protect two species of Allegheny River mussels, declining populations of
Louisiana closes some fishing due to tilapia
Baton Rouge, La. (AP) – The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has closed an area south of Port Sulphur to commercial and recreational fishing after tilapia were found in public waterways in the area.
PGC boosts doe permits for Unit 5C
Harrisburg – If doe licenses were dollars, then Wildlife Management Unit 5C was the big winner at the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s April meeting. That unit, which takes in all or parts of Chester, Berks, Bucks,
Man enters plea to role in illegal Montana hunting scheme
Billings, Mont. (AP) – A Louisiana man who recruited big game hunters to come to Montana, where they illegally hunted elk and deer, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to violate a federal wildlife act. Anthony
