Egg-take operations canceled due to COVID-19 social distancing protocols
Minnesota DNR Reports
April 14, 2020
DNR: Missed year of stocking will have minimal long-term impact on angling, fish populations.
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Wildlife agency says silver carp reported in East Tennessee
Associated Press
January 14, 2020
An angler told the agency a silver carp jumped into his boat as he deployed a trolling motor.
Jim Beam fined in massive bourbon spill that killed fish
Associated Press
December 30, 2019
VERSAILLES, Ky. — Jim Beam was fined $600,000 earlier this month after a July warehouse fire sent a nearly 23-mile plume of alcohol into the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, killing fish. The distiller agreed to
Dredging effort planned to benefit fish habitat on Lake Superior harbor
Associated Press
December 30, 2019
Copper mining waste rock known as stamp sands have built up in an Upper Peninsula waterway and threaten an important whitefish, lake trout spawning area.
Vendors scramble as fresh perch supply shrinks
Associated Press
October 17, 2019
Because Great Lakes perch is so hard to come by, some businesses are turning to European perch, or Zander, he said, which comes from Poland and other areas in Europe with bodies of fresh water.
Testing shows Minnesota fish is oldest ever taken
Associated Press
August 12, 2019
Radiocarbon dating verified that the female bigmouth buffalo fish taken from Crystal Lake near Pelican Rapids in Otter Tail County last summer was 112.
‘I’ve been bitten! It was a lot of pain’
Staff and News Reports
August 1, 2019
Boy says fish bite him while he was water-skiing in Fox Lake.
Hatchery comes up big for North Dakota walleye stocking
North Dakota Game and Fish Department Reports
July 24, 2019
Game and Fish Department fisheries personnel recently finished stocking more than 140 lakes across the state with walleye fingerlings, completing one of the largest stocking efforts in the history of the agency.
Fishermen removing Asian carp by the thousands from dam
Associated Press
July 23, 2019
Some of the invasive fish reportedly from 20 to 30 pounds.
