EDITORIAL: Fair Fishing: Senate Bill Would Help Ensure Ohio Has Plenty of Perch for Everyone
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By The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Mar. 10--The state is right to take no chances with the well-being of Lake Erie's population of yellow perch.
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By David Whitney, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 24--WASHINGTON -- Congress will soon send President Bush a funding bill for the Iraq war that also will deliver $60.4 million in disaster assistance that desperate West Coast salmon fishermen have been seeking for nearly a year.
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By ANDREW TAYLOR WASHINGTON - In Washington, it pays to read the fine print. The Iraq funding bill is a perfect example, studded with provisions to help dairy farmers, airlines, salmon fisherman and rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging.
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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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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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By AMY WOLD  Recreational fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico could keep two red snappers per day from federal waters - down from the current four- fish bag limit - under a  proposed rule announced Thursday.
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All that Tim Spurgeon wanted to do last Saturday evening was kick back with a fishing buddy and enjoy an easy evening's angling down on the Maumee River. He didn't think he would come out with a potential state record white bass.
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By SAM POWELL World Outdoor Writer  Volumteers who want to help improve the fishing at nearby Lake Oologah are needed for Saturday's annual brush pile day, which gets under way at 9 a.m. at Blue Creek boat ramp.
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The House of Representatives joined  the Senate this week in calling on world leaders to slash  fishing subsidies, which critics blame for depletion of marine  stocks, some to near extinction.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 6--They'll be catching stripers -- not catfish -- but the winning  margin might be just a whisker.   That's the prediction of David Dudley of Lynchburg.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Problems on the Great Lakes are approaching the tipping point and environmentalists need to intensify their push for Congress to fund restoration efforts on the lakes.
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By TOM BREEN  Hunting and fishing is a potential billion-dollar industry for West Virginia, state officials say, but there needs to be greater access to private land to reap the full rewards.
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A massive cleanup plan to restore the Great Lakes for future generations needs to be a priority in Congress this year, lawmakers and environmental activists said Wednesday. Members of Congress representing Great Lakes states outlined a $20 billion plan to improve water quality, restore fish and wildlife around the lakes and guard against invasive species that could inflict economic pain on the region.
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By MATTHEW DALY  WASHINGTON - Congress early Saturday approved a bill to revamp management of the nation's marine fisheries and strengthen protections against overfishing of dwindling stocks.
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For at-risk species, sport fishing accounts for one-quarter of the catch. Regulation could rise.
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Millions of casual fishermen reel in a higher take of the nation's most prized saltwater fish than previously thought, researchers say, prompting them to urge improved regulation of recreational fishing.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.