Fishing

Detroit (AP) — Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off. The Detroit

Lincoln, Neb. (AP) — Length limits have been lifted on fish taken from two southeast Nebraska lakes. The water levels are being lowered at Big Indian Reservoir in Gage County and Iron Horse Trail Reservoir

Flatwoods, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia bowhunters are unhappy with a National Rifle Association push to open four southern coalfield counties to gun hunting for deer. During Sunday’s Natural Resources Commission meeting in Flatwoods, about

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was not detected in the 862 deer collected during the DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife’s 2008 CWD sampling. In every year since 2002, DFW employees have been collecting CWD samples

Bats from Pendleton County are being tested for a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome (WNS), a condition that has killed thousands of cave bats in several species in the Northeast, according to Craig Stihler,

Washington (AP) — A fish wholesaler and his son have pleaded guilty in the largest investigation of illegal commercial fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. The Justice Department says Robert Moore Sr. and

An Oregon hunter who is remaining anonymous has paid $120,000 for Idaho’s auction bighorn sheep permit. The permit was sold at the recent Wild Sheep Foundation’s annual convention in Salt Lake City. The Wild Sheep

More than 1,180 pounds of summer flounder and black sea bass, worth approximately $2,400, was seized this weekend by officers from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)’s Marine Enforcement Unit during a