The nine-township area of northwest Kent County surrounding the captive deer facility that produced a deer with chronic wasting disease – Tyrone, Solon, Nelson, Sparta, Algoma, Courtland, Alpine, Plainfield and Cannon — is the surveillance zone.
What does that mean?
All deer killed by hunters in the surveillance zone must be taken to a Department of Natural [...]
September 18, 2008 | Posted in
Hunting |
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MADISON – All planned testing of wild fish for VHS fish disease has been completed for 2008, and results show that so far, the deadly fish virus has not spread in Wisconsin and that state waters have not suffered the kind of fish kills once feared.
Fish from 67 different waters were tested for VHS in [...]
July 31, 2008 | Posted in
Freshwater Fishing |
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Reopening Follows Extensive Testing of Shellfish
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced the reopening of approximately 5,200 acres of shellfish harvesting areas in the Town of Huntington. These areas were closed on May 28, 2008, after DEC’s Bureau of Marine Resources detected saxitoxin, a marine biotoxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning, [...]
June 13, 2008 | Posted in
Fishing Rules |
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