On your mark, get set … : Sturgeon season on Black Lake begins Feb. 3 at 8 a.m.
Michigan DNR
January 3, 2018
The 2018 total allocation to state of Michigan anglers for Black Lake is seven lake sturgeon.
Fish
Erie walleye fishing: The perfect (winter) storm?
Site Staff
December 29, 2017
Combination of first Erie December freeze-over since 2000 and a surging walleye population in the lake could make for a fishing season to remember. But with great ice-building weather comes First Day Hikes cancellations.
California salmon lose way after ride downstream in drought
Associated Press
December 28, 2017
With fewer native fall-run Chinook salmon able to make their way back home to the leading salmon hatchery in the state, that hatchery could have only about half as many young salmon as usual to
Drugs flushed down the stream creating problem for fisheries
Mike Moore
December 21, 2017
America’s opioid crisis examined under new light.
Massive fish escape over summer prompts cancellation of salmon farm lease
Associated Press
December 19, 2017
SEATTLE — Washington state officials have canceled an Atlantic salmon farm lease belonging to a company that also operates another salmon farm where more than 160,000 adult fish escaped into the Puget Sound last summer.
Illegal trafficking of protected fish to cost two Kentucky men – nearly $71,500
Staff and News Reports
December 15, 2017
Illegal activities spilled into neighboring states; one of the men also charged in Illinois.
Record number of walleye – nearly 900,000 – stocked in Wisconsin in 2017
Wisconsin DNR Reports
December 12, 2017
In the last year before the launch of the Wisconsin Walleye Initiative, DNR stocked 142,121 extended growth walleye. Since the initiative began, DNR stocked 455,307 large fingerlings in 2013, 719,670 fish in 2014, 760,969 in
Montana investigators trace origin of illegally introduced walleye
Associated Press
December 11, 2017
KALISPELL, Mont. — Wildlife investigators have used a kind of biological fingerprinting to unravel the origin of a pair of walleye illegally introduced in a northwestern Montana lake. The Flathead Beacon reports that Montana Fish,
Plan to block Asian carp from Great Lakes worries Louisiana business group
Associated Press
December 8, 2017
NEW ORLEANS — A business lobbying organization in Louisiana is expressing concerns about proposals to block an invasive species of fish from the Great Lakes. The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry has released a
