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The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved new rules that will apply to commercial harvesters of baitfish in 2024.
The rules, adopted at the board’s Dec. 13 meeting, apply to minnows, and other wild bait, harvested from Wisconsin waters in order to maintain populations of these forage fish for native game fish.
When saugeye fishing, do you pay attention to the behavior of the little fish in the water around you? Their presence can change your luck during the warmest months of the year.
Shiners and minnows are common throughout lakes and rivers. The species vary from lake to lake, but the importance of baitfish as a critical food source does not.
New rules proposed by the DNR’s Fisheries Division would make it simpler for anglers to buy and use minnows, and for baitfish gatherers to bring them to market, all while continuing to monitor the environment for diseases.
Proposed Fish and Game rule changes relative to Atlantic salmon broodstock fishing, bait fish, zebra mussels, fishing tournaments, and fish importation will be discussed at a public hearing on Wednesday, January 16
Over the past three years, North Dakota has implemented several new rules intended to reduce the risk of aquatic nuisance species transfer throughout the state. The most recent of those rules, according to State Game and Fish Department fisheries chief Greg Power, is a requirement that anglers in all cases must now drain their boat’s
Western N.Y. may get transportation corridor for baitfish Albany – DEC is planning to soften its baitfish transport regulations on the heels of strong criticism from western New York anglers as well as bait dealers who say the rules have crippled their business. DEC announced late last month it is developing regulations that will create
Albany – DEC_is looking at relaxing its baitfish regulations, which are currently among the most stringent in the nation. That possibility comes on the heels of a meeting with a group known as the Lake Erie Civilian Baitfish Group, which is looking at some loosening of the baitfish transport regulations put into effect in 2006
Madison – The Natural Resources Board granted the wishes of many anglers and the Legislature when it recently relaxed rules involving viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), to allow anglers to reuse minnows. The change will allow fishermen to take minnows off the water and reuse them later if they were purchased from a Wisconsin bait dealer
Madison – Like their counterparts in fish management have done – and continue to do – in battling a deadly fish disease, officials from national parks surrounding Lake Superior are developing a plan to deal with VHS, a disease that’s one of the most recent “invasive” threats to the Great Lakes. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia, which
