EDITORIAL: Give the Fish a Break: State Fish and Game Commission Makes Bold Environmental Move.
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By The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 12--California launched a gutsy environmental initiative last month that has received far less attention than the much-heralded global warming bill.   On a unanimous vote on Aug.
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By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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Our wet spring has given one nearby fishery at lift and started a second one moving in the right direction. "Sweet Briar is plum full," Paul Bailey, the south-central fisheries district supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said Tuesday.
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As regulators struggle to find a better way to manage the region's fish stocks, a Maine group offers a potential solution that should be included in any study of alternative management plans.
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A plan to create fish refuges off the South Carolina coast sparked a clash between fishermen and conservationists.
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For at-risk species, sport fishing accounts for one-quarter of the catch. Regulation could rise.
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By Matt Weiser and Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--The fate of a water supply serving two in three Californians has come down to tides, temperature and the mysterious movements of a tiny fish.
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One of every three lakes in the United States, and nearly one-quarter of the nation's rivers contain enough pollution that people should limit or avoid eating fish caught there.
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By Bob Lamb | Tribune Outdoors Editor, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 7--Tony Christnovich believes he knows why fishing success has been good, bad and ugly the past week or so.
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By Mike Joseph, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep. 25--BENNER TOWNSHIP -- The township will support public fishing as a "primary activity" in Spring Creek Canyon, according to a memorandum of understanding between supervisors and the state Fish and Boat Commission.
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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By Francis X. Gilpin, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.  Jun. 2--Environmentalists hope that next month a seven-member state  commission will reduce the potentially cancer causing chemicals being  discharged into Alabama's waterways.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jan. 30--Federal wildlife officials have halted review of a $110 million water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, effectively sending planners back to the drafting table on a project they considered vital to water quality.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 31--If you're heading to Horsethief, leave your big boat behind.   The Idaho Department of Fish and Game drained the reservoir last fall to remove illegally stocked yellow perch, and it hasn't refilled enough to make the boat ramps useable.
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It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas.
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A move to ban saltwater ships from the Great Lakes, at least temporarily, got a boost this week. Ninety organizations asked for a moratorium on such shipping until Congress enacts meaningful laws to stop the continuing influx of harmful invasive species.