Expected to enhance recreational boating and mountaintop hiking opportunities while protecting local water quality.
Still, the fish remains a threatened species in the state and the DEC asks anglers to avoid spawning lake sturgeon while fishing in New York waters.
Involved thousands of round gobies in Cayuga Lake.
Effort includes boat stewards and decontamination stations to protect local waterbodies.
Biologists predict good fishing on Chautauqua Lake. But season for New York’s Lake Erie, Upper Niagara River, Lower Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River won’t open until June 17.
The 2016 deer take included 106,055 antlerless deer and 107,006 bucks.
DEC: Waterfowl hunting seasons provide diverse opportunities across the state.
Departments of Environmental Conservation, Agriculture and Markets expand area restricting movement of ash wood to slow spread of invasive pest.
Hikers should temporarily avoid high elevation trails.
Walleye, pike, pickerel, and tiger muskellunge seasons kick off Saturday.
New campers will be provided with all the gear they’ll need, a camping ambassador will meet families at the campsite and help them get set up, and campers will have an opportunity to learn from experts on how to fish, hike, bird watch, paddle and more.
License holders can now report game harvests via smartphone or other mobile device.
The program aims to collect data from fishing trips on all of New York’s Finger Lakes and selected Lake Ontario embayments of DEC Regions 7 and 8.
10th anniversary of free fishing and instruction at Six Mile Waterworks.
Agency reports that the turkey population experienced reproductive success in the summer of 2015, and combined with relatively mild winters in 2015-16 and 2016-17, it is anticipated that the spring harvest will be up from last year and above the five-year average of about 20,000 birds.
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation says it would endanger wetlands, streams and other habitat.
Meanwhile, biologists throughout Lake Erie have been implanting acoustic transmitters in walleye to understand fish movements and how they relate to fishing effort and harvest.
Updates expected as New York State Department of Environmental Conservation continues to upgrade deer harvest calculation system.
In Minnesota, New York and Nebraska, such efforts help bolster state-wide stocking practices — and walleye angling success.
In 2005, CWD was found in captive and wild white-tailed deer in Oneida County. After intensive disease response efforts, no subsequent cases have been detected.
Greater chance for encounters with both animals as spring arrives in New York state.
The annual hearings are being held by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and Board.
Winter Storm Stella provides plenty of snow for winter fun, making for some inevitable risks, too, at elevation in Upstate New York.
Fortunately for hunters and anglers, this is mostly the off-season across that region. It is, however, a somewhat busy time for natural resources agencies there, and the storm has resulted in postponements and cancellations as well as general no-travel warnings from state agencies.
Observations will help shape future fisheries management actions.
Anglers reminded that possession of the fish species is strictly prohibited.
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