The Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration (SFR) program is one federal program that really lives up to its name. For more than half a century, it has been one of the best “user-pays, user-benefits” initiatives anywhere. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has received more than $11 million each year from these [...]
December 3, 2008 | Posted in
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General turkey-hunting seasons are closed for the year, but hunters and anglers still have plenty of opportunities to contribute to the Thanksgiving Day feast in the days ahead.
The late buck season – already under way in Eastern Washington – gets started tomorrow (Nov. 13) on the west side of the Cascades for deer hunters using [...]
November 13, 2008 | Posted in
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Midwest Region this October received the first of a series of automated fish tagging trailers – an initial step in the development of a mass marking program that will eventually mark or tag all salmon and trout stocked into U.S. waters of the Great Lakes. Once implemented, this [...]
October 31, 2008 | Posted in
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A recent donation to the Walhalla State Fish Hatchery by Trout Unlimited’s Saluda River Chapter should bring much-needed assistance to the staff and occupants (fish) of the hatchery.
“After a tour of the hatchery by members of the Saluda River Chapter of Trout Unlimited, it became apparent that a desire to assist the hatchery was very [...]
October 20, 2008 | Posted in
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WATERBURY, VT – Vermont anglers will be glad to hear that the state’s walleye stocking program was highly successful this year.
The cooperative walleye rearing and stocking program was successful in all respects, said Thomas Wiggins, who heads up the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s fish culture program. We are especially thankful for the help and [...]
August 4, 2008 | Posted in
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Gordon, Sea Center Texas Mascot, Dead at 23
LAKE JACKSON, Texas — The thing most people remember about Gordon is how much visiting schoolchildren loved him. Sometimes they’d stretch out on the floor of the visitor’s center, in front of the glass.
“Am I bigger than Gordon yet?” a child would ask.
And Gordon, when he saw the [...]
July 2, 2008 | Posted in
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is releasing marked walleye fry this spring in Lake Kabetogama at Voyageurs National Park to better understand the species’ natural reproduction and recruitment cycles. The work may help researchers understand why young walleye survival rate has declined on the lake recently, after remaining steady for almost two decades.
This [...]
A news release sent out Thursday, May 22, included an incorrect boundary description for Chinook fishing water on the Upper Salmon River.
The Upper Salmon will be open from June 19 until August 2 or until further notice, from the Highway 75 Bridge – milepost 213.5 – about nine miles west of Clayton – upstream to [...]
June 3, 2008 | Posted in
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WATERBURY, VT – Celebrate the arrival of summer and enjoy a free sample of Vermont’s excellent fishing, state parks and historic and cultural resources on Vermont Days, Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15.
All Vermont State Park day areas, state-owned historic sites, and the Vermont Historical Society Museum will be open at no charge on [...]
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will stock 19,000 hatchery-reared largemouth bass, implanted with coded wire tags, in Pinellas County’s Lake Seminole May 28. The lake is the scene of a unique research project that compares growth and survivability rates of stocked bass with those of wild largemouths.
Last fall, an initial stocking of [...]