GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Hunting and Fishing http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-03-19T07:01:02-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-03-16T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100314/GPG0204/3140638/1233/GPG02 With all the talk of doom and gloom about Lake Michigan in recent years -- Asian carp knocking at the door, forage base concerns and smaller salmon, among others -- it's nice to hear a little good news. Lake Michigan's prey fish biomass took a surprising step upward last year. text/html 2010-03-15T08:05:50-04:00 http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100314/COLUMNIST22/3140311 April Fool's Day could see a very bad joke played on the hundreds of thousands of fishermen who enjoy angling on the Great Lakes, it's the deadline for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to report on the financial and environmental costs of combating the Asian carp menace. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100312/NEWS03/303129981 Officials have less than three weeks to clear the channel between Snowshoe Bay and Lake Ontario. The area must be dredged by April 1, so as not to interfere with the beginning of the spawning season for brown trout and steelhead trout. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2010/03/lake_ontario_fishery_complicat.html 2009 was a good year for fishermen in Lake Ontario, with catches in most species up from the year before -- despite a lot of crazy stuff going on in the lake that can be traced back to the impact of invasive species. text/html 2010-03-10T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/03/10/walleye-fever-hits-maumee-river/ This time every year, up to 500,000 of the fish make their way up the largest river flowing into the Great Lakes for the "spring run." The reproductive ritual is responsible in part for Lake Erie's claim to fame as the Walleye Capital of the World. text/html 2010-03-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2010/03/01/front/doc4b88289a6e6d8529602924.txt The Ohio EPA released new, stricter limitations on fish consumption in local waterways advising anglers to limit meals of Lake Erie-caught channel catfish and common carp because of PCB levels. text/html 2010-02-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/85252687.html An aggressive - and expensive - Asian carp fishing expedition on the Chicago canal system likely will prove fruitless, say top carp experts. text/html 2010-02-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.sooeveningnews.com/news/x640763601/To-raise-a-trout An $890,000 appropriation from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service will improve fish recruitment at the Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and provide a shot in the arm to the local economy. text/html 2010-02-18T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=3294 There's a joint city, county and federal effort in Ashland, Wis., to build a $6 million research facility to study fish populations in Lake Superior. text/html 2010-02-18T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/84661902.html A Winnebago, Wis., sturgeon fishery needs the greatest possible protection from invasive species. The more the fishery is isolated from the Great Lakes, the better.