State considers rolling back ban on catching wild steelhead
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BREMERTON, Wash. -- The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is nearing a decision on whether to scratch a two-year ban on keeping wild steelhead caught from some Western Washington rivers, most of them on the Olympic Peninsula.
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Officials in three states have said they will to allow hunting&#8212;which could reduce wolf numbers back to dire levels&#8212;if the creatures lose their protected status.
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By Rachana Rathi, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 16--The state Department of Environmental Protection says it has a way to help local fishermen catch more large trout. The fishermen say no thanks.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 2--Destin's charter fi shermen are concerned that new data on red snapper bycatch mortality could come back to bite them.
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By Lew Freedman, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- It's a terrible thing when you have a one-track mind, as so many fishermen do. Here I was in northwest Arkansas and all I could think about was hybrid stripers on Beaver Lake.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--GARRISON, Minn. -- Big Pine Lake looked unfriendly, unknown, unforgiving last weekend as I left the dock to fish for bass.   Strange.
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Columbia River Basin dam operations don&#39;t jeopardize imperiled salmon and steelhead, according to a new biological opinion released Tuesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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WASHINGTON -- December 12 -- The Bush administrationâs new salmon plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers (also known as a biological opinion), released today, is a major step backward for salmon and the people of the Northwest.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Jun. 23--The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is drafting a new, statewide plan to cope with the VHS virus in fish after the disease was recently found as close as Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin.
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For at-risk species, sport fishing accounts for one-quarter of the catch. Regulation could rise.
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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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After a public outcry, the provincial government is backing away from a strict new ban on the use of fresh raw fish in sushi. The rules could be loosened if other ways can be found to warn diners of the potential
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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By RICHARD COWEN, STAFF WRITER  A bill that could radically alter the makeup of the state Fish and Game Council has advanced in the state Assembly.  The bill proposes to shrink the Fish and Game Council from its 11 members to seven.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  May 31--A public workshop about California's steelhead trout recovery  program will be held June 13 by the National Marine Fisheries Service at the  Sunset Center in Carmel.
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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.
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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.