MINNEAPOLIS — A fish, game and wildlife management revolution might be underway in Minnesota, as support for a Citizens Conservation Advisory Council gained widespread backing at Game Fair, which recently concluded its six-day run in Ramsey.

Gubernatorial candidates Amy Klobuchar and Lisa Demuth said at the fair that they are open to the ...Read more

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.J. — Taxidermy and weathered photos line the walls at Higbee’s Bait and Tackle in Fortescue, artifacts from bygone days when the sleepy Delaware Bay town was truly the “weakfish capital of the world.”

The taxidermy is a dusty, 12-pound “tide runner,” the nickname fishermen bestow on the biggest, trophy weakfish,...Read more

DETROIT — The Great Lakes may be home to some fish that were alive around the turn of the century.

The 16th century.

Findings by a team of researchers from Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, and Michigan's and Wisconsin's respective departments of natural resources suggest that female lake sturgeon can live up to ...Read more

SEATTLE — Several shiny black fins emerged from the water near the Ballard Locks just after 5 p.m. last Monday, as onlookers snapped photos and videos. They belonged to transient orcas, or Bigg’s killer whales, one of two types of orcas that frequent the Salish Sea.

Scientists said the killer whales were likely attempting to hunt seals and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The other day at Game Fair, Danny Suggs was spinning tales about river fishing. Expert in the pursuit of smallmouth bass, he knows where these fish hang out as water spills and bends downstream, congealing in riffles and pools, seams and eddies.

That Suggs is a Black man was considered a nonfactor by the dozen or so attendees of...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — “Eat crow,” a popular saying goes.

Crow, being a similar delicacy to “humble pie,” is the suggestion there. A food one is forced to eat when humiliated or proved wrong. Certain cultures have eaten crow, simply because they’re hungry. Though it’s not usually anyone’s first choice on a menu, no matter the era or ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Amid increasing reports of fishermen encountering brown sharks in the Connecticut River, experts say it is a mix of both good and bad news.

Dr. Eric Schultz , a University of Connecticut professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, said that he has talked with a number of fisherman who are ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Whether Donald Trump Jr. is the conservationist he claims to be is debatable. The son of President Donald Trump, Don Jr. once said he “would be a very, very loud voice in (his father’s) ear’’ about conservation.

But Whit Fosburgh, a former president and chief executive of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In another attempt to sell more duck hunting licenses and stamps, the Department of Natural Resources might free waterfowlers from the time-honored tradition of identifying mallards, blue-winged teal, canvasbacks and other duck species before they shoot.

Instead, they could plug anything that quacks.

That’s not hyperbole.

In...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gardner Nordman is an expert fisherman. But if he played football like he was fishing on this particular day, DeLand coach Rick Darlington surely would have benched the senior quarterback.

“I just had an off day,” Nordman said later.

It’s a good thing this kid knows how to catch all types of water species, because the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Mike Anderson perhaps could have been first chair in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, playing clarinet or oboe or another of the reed instruments.

Instead, Anderson blows a duck call. He’s obsessed with it, really — the high balls and the feeding chuckles that can fool mallards and other wild fowl into thinking Anderson is ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — Recently, a jarring video hit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police Facebook page that shows an officer popping out of the dark on the Fox Island Pier in Pierce County and yelling, “You, come over here now! Police!”

It was like something out of an old episode of “Cops,” before the officer’s tone ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of fish died in Minnesota lakes and rivers earlier this summer during a five-day stretch of intense heat.

Fish kills are a natural occurrence in Minnesota, but the intense heat wave July 16-20 triggered an unusual wave of deaths across the state, even in lakes with good water quality, said Isaiah Tolo, fish health ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Walk into the Moccasin Bar in Hayward, Wis., and along with sipping a tall, cool one you can gawk at a mount of Cal Johnson’s record 1949 muskie. At 67 1/2 pounds and a tad longer than 60 inches, Old Cal’s memorable catch occurred on Lac Courte Oreilles near Hayward.

Not far from the Moccasin, at the Freshwater Fishing Hall ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Cooking up a shore lunch of freshly-caught walleye, bass or northern pike is a Minnesota tradition.

But because harmful mercury can be found in higher quantities in fish caught in northeastern Minnesota, the state’s Department of Health now has a special consumption limit.

This year, the state advised that kids and others in ...Read more