If Fish Could TalkFishing Conservation
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How Do Scientists Know Where the Fish Go?
Understanding where fish spend their time—including where and when they migrate—is an important part of scientists’ knowledge about species. But fish and other critters can’t just send a text when they get to their winter homes
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Algae Bloom cause of Civil Emergency alert in Oregon
The words blasted to cellphones around Oregon’s capital city were ominous: “Civil emergency . prepare for action.”Within half an hour, a second official alert clarified the subject wasn’t impending violence but toxins from an algae bloom, detected in Salem’s water supply. Across the U.S., reservoirs that supply drinking water and lakes used for recreation are experiencing similar events.
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Biologists box bass, crappie at DeGray Lake
More than 11,000 cubic feet of new cover for anglers to fish sits at the bottom of DeGray Lake in Clark and Hot Springs counties, thanks to the efforts of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission staff from across the state. Two-hundred and forty near-permanent fish attractors were dropped in various locations of the 13,800-acre Corps of Engineers reservoir.
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Master Plan for Fisheries Adopted by California Fish and Game Commission
At its June 2018 meeting in Sacramento, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) took action on a number of issues affecting California’s natural resources.
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Trump Administraion Announced New Tariffs on Chinese Products, Including Recreational Boating Industry
On Friday, the Trump Administration announced Section 301 tariffs of 25 percent on approximately $50 billion worth of select Chinese products, including nearly 300 marine related parts. In response, NMMA is sounding the alarm and calling on the Administration to withdraw the tariffs.
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Fishing for Bass... and Senko brings in another record catch
Collins, along with a few friends, were fishing for black bass when something unusual hit his 5-inch Senko plastic worm. “This thing really had some weight,” he said.
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Record-Sized Catfish Caught in Seattle
A fisherman pulled a 45-pound catfish from an urban pond in Seattle on Saturday afternoon in what may be the largest fish caught there.
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Agua Fria closure on Lake Pleasant
It has been a successful bald eagle breeding season on Lake Pleasant. Bald eagle nestlings are flying and about ready to head north for the summer and the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department lifted its boating closure on the Agua Fria river into the lake today (Friday, June 15).
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13 Year Old River Bass Kill Solved by College Lab
Turns out it can be lethal when the shallow water near the banks of the river where young bass roam becomes stagnant and hot, turning into a soupy cauldron of deadly pathogens.
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A first time- noodling for catfish season has been approved by state Natural Resource Commission
Noodlers catch catfish by feeling around in underwater openings until they touch a catfish. They then grab the fish by the mouth or gills and yank it out. The practice has acquired a cult following among daredevils who enjoy the adrenaline rush of wrestling with fish that can weigh up to 70 pounds.
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Arizona Adds Two Stocked Urban Fishing Ponds
The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the town of Prescott Valley have teamed up to expand fishing opportunities in the community of Prescott Valley.
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25,000 fingerling largemouth bass into backwater areas to improve survival.
nglers set out of Hwy 43 ramps near Tommy’s Trading Post and assisted in the transportation and release of approximately 25,000 fingerling bass into backwater areas to improve survival.
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Ca State Parks workers shoot herbicide pellets onto invasive plants in Delta
IT’S NOT JUST NUTRIA — SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA HAS 185 INVASIVE SPECIES, BUT TRACKING THEM IS UNEVEN
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Electrofishing Surveys Shed Light on American Shad
In continued efforts to restore American Shad (and other migratory fishes) by reconnecting historic migratory pathways, the Millstone River's Weston Causeway Dam was removed during the summer of 2017
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Watersnake prey on fish and amphibians...
These watersnakes prey on fish and amphibians, and if their range expands, they will pose a threat to endangered fish and wildlife.
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Pensacola’s Jerry Pate Joins Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida Board
Legendary golfer and businessman from Pensacola, Jerry Pate, has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the nonprofit Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida.
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Today Friends of the River, Restore the Delta, and eight other environmental groups sent a letter
Supporters of the CA WaterFix claim that the project will be good for the environment and improve the San Francisco Bay-Delta. If that were true, there wouldn’t be a legislative effort to undo legal review of this controversial project.
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This month's spawn signals peak in Texas sunfish action
Sunfish such as redears and bluegills swarm to prime spawning areas, congregating in relatively small areas. The result is scores of nests and spawning fish concentrated in small areas
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Catch pending Illinois fish record
I caught it on a whole night crawler, an eighth-ounce egg sinker and a swivel with a 2-foot snell
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Opposition to Smaller Mesh Gillnets in Columbia River
Recreational spring Chinook fisheries were reopened in the Columbia River this year through an agreement between fisheries managers from Oregon and Washington, also known as the Columbia River Compact