The Department of Natural Resources will continue limited production of walleye fry for the 2009 season as a precaution against spreading viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) into inland waters, fisheries officials announced today.
“We still don’t have all the information we’d like on VHS,” said Gary Whelan, DNR fish production manager. “We’d rather be cautious than risk [...]
March 10, 2009 | Posted in
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has scheduled a Coastal Fisheries Bay Team tournament targeting flounder for 6 a.m. until noon Nov. 15 at Conn Brown Harbor in Aransas Pass.
The program, launched in 2005, is designed to recruit experienced anglers to assist TPWD with collecting brood stock for hatchery programs. The [...]
November 11, 2008 | Posted in
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CONCORD, N.H. — Anglers looking for some challenging catch-and-release sport fishing while they’re enjoying the fall foliage should head to the Merrimack and Pemigewasset rivers to hook the “King of Fish.” October and November are prime months for fall Atlantic salmon fishing in New Hampshire. Expect some great salmon fishing by the first week in [...]
September 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Petersburg – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish today announced a closure to sport fishing in Blind Slough due to brood stock concerns at the Crystal Lake Hatchery (CLH). The closure includes all waters of Blind Slough upstream of a line between Blind Point and Anchor Point, from Friday July [...]
July 2, 2008 | Posted in
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Sitka – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today that bag and possession limits are being increased for all anglers (resident and nonresident) in the Hidden Falls and Silver Bay saltwater areas to harvest hatchery-produced king salmon. Beginning 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, July 1, the daily bag and possession limit in these areas is [...]
July 1, 2008 | Posted in
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All waters of the English Bay River drainage and Port Graham Subdistrict close to the retention of sockeye salmon at 11:59 p.m., Saturday, May 31, 2008, and will remain closed through 11:59 p.m., Thursday, July 31, 2008.
The 2008 preseason forecast for sockeye salmon returning to the English Bay lakes is less than the low end [...]
May 30, 2008 | Posted in
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced today that king salmon sport fishing regulations in the hatchery terminal harvest area (THA) near Juneau will be liberalized, to provide additional opportunity to harvest hatchery king salmon. The new regulations will be in effect in the Juneau THA from 12:01 a.m. Sunday, June 1 through Sunday, [...]
May 27, 2008 | Posted in
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CASPER– Good news for Wyoming anglers. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced that waters scheduled to be stocked in 2008 should receive at least 90 percent of the original numbers requested despite finding whirling disease earlier this year at the Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery.
Fish culture personnel from all ten Game and Fish hatcheries and [...]
May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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CONCORD, N.H. — Spring is here — flowers are blooming, birds are singing, black flies are biting and it’s time to fish for brood stock salmon. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is planning to release more than 1,500 Atlantic salmon into the Pemigewasset and Merrimack Rivers — three times the number of fish [...]
May 15, 2008 | Posted in
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