A bighead carp has been found in Illinois’ Lake Calumet, about six miles north of an electric barrier set up to stop the invasive fish from entering the Great Lakes. More on woodtv.com >>
The group StopAsianCarp.com is a good avenue for voicing your concerns. You can find them at www.stopasiancarp.com and on Facebook.
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Trout Unlimited wants to hire someone to make things happen on the Rogue River!
Trout Unlimited (TU) is North America’s leading coldwater fisheries conservation organization, conserving, protecting and restoring rivers and watersheds for trout and salmon. TU’s Home Rivers Initiative program was created in 1996 to perform collaborative, science-based watershed-scale restoration on coldwater rivers. To date, [...]
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The Department of Natural Resource and Environment is planning a series of statewide public meetings on proposed changes to trout fishing regulations to give anglers a chance to provide input on the draft plan.
A copy of the draft plan is available online to review here.
A year ago, the DNRE’s Fisheries Division presented a proposal to [...]
Our Schrems River Keeper program kicked-off for 2010 on May 8th. Volunteers (l-r) George Buursma, Josh Zuiderveen, Jim Flamming (‘Chief River Keeper’), Gary Winlow, Ryan Burke and Rich Brand gathered monitoring data from the six devises that remained in the Rogue River system through the winter. Also, new ‘loggers’ (monitoring device) were installed in: Barkley Creek, Shaw Creek and [...]
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The following note comes from the Michigan TU Conservation Committee …
“Here is some important information for TU members and chapters regarding efforts to prevent the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River basin.
As you may have heard in the news recently, the US Supreme Court dismissed the last of the [...]