Red Snapper Restrictions Nearing Approval
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By Ryan Burr, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Feb. 13--Mandatory reductions in red snapper catch, which recreation fishermen have fought and dreaded, likely will take effect later this month.
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By Bryan Brasher  As you may have read last Sunday in The Commercial Appeal, five Democratic politicians have hatched a plot in the state legislature to do away with the Tennessee law that limits the harvest of catfish over 34 inches.
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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.
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Federal and state officials plan to announce Friday an agreement to spend &#36;1.3 million over the next five years to save California's state fish.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 3--Before the new year, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller wrote a letter to the head of the House Committee on Resources urging him to look into the National Marine Fisheries Service's controversial regulations on red snapper.
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Irish fisherman have reacted cautiously to new EU fishing quotas negotiated during talks in Brussels. EU fisheries ministers agreed that cod-fishing grounds in the Irish Sea, North Sea and west of Scotland should remain open.
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State plan would lower its status to 'threatened,' which could benefit boaters by reducing dock and speed limits.
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By Patricia Smith, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 21--MOREHEAD CITY -- The newest member of the state Marine Fisheries Commission is studying for next week's commission meeting in Atlantic Beach.
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By BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - New state restrictions on power plants' mercury emissions that go further than federal standards, but are still too weak in the eyes of some environmental groups, are expected to gain approval today from the Board of Natural Resources.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--A revised federal plan to speed home and institutional building in coastal wetlands has been released for public review and comments.   The U.S.
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President Bush is trying to encourage more recreational fishing in state waters and adding more federal rules limiting commercial fishing of two overfished species Â striped bass and red drum.
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By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 27--The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will stock 50,000 juvenile trout in the Lehigh River this spring, part of an ongoing effort to enhance the river's coldwater fishery.
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By Raloff, Janet  SCIENCE & SOCIETY  On Dec. 9, 2006, Congress reauthorized the 30-year-old Magmison- Stevens Act, a law that sets rules tor fishing and ocean management. This is the laws first wholesale revision since 1996.  Much has happened since then.
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Fishing ban to start on China's Yangtze River    WUHAN, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A three-month fishing ban on the Yangtze River imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture will take effect this Thursday.
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A record run of chinook salmon is expected for California's Klamath River basin this year, prompting a federal fishery panel on Friday to suggest that restrictions on the West Coast salmon fishing fleet be eased for the 2007 season.
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By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Dec. 19--State officials hope to complete long-awaited repairs at Leaser Lake by 2010, but local fishermen will probably have to wait another four years before angling for species such as bass, walleye, muskellunge and catfish.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  A proposed rules package for fishing tournaments held in Wisconsin has been revised to address concerns raised by members of the Natural Resources Board, including costs, the spread of aquatic invasive species and tournament-related fish mortality.