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Conservation News

Yamaha helps Georgia DNR ramp up conservation efforts

Georgia Department of Natural Resources – Wildlife Resources Division (DNR) continues its efforts to restore and enhance reservoir fisheries habitat through native aquatic vegetation plantings.  Native aquatic plants are being...

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2019 Noreen Clough memorial scholarships awarded

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The third annual Noreen Clough Memorial Scholarships for Females in Fisheries have been awarded to Hadley Boehm, a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, and to April Lamb,...

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Largemouth Bass Virus update

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Largemouth Bass Virus (LMBV) never really went away. As kills related to its presence diminished, biologists predicted that it would persist, and it has. From time to...

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175,000 fish die in Alabama wastewater spill

Earlier this month, a Tyson Foods plant in Hanceville, Alabama spilled over 800,000 gallons of wastewater into the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. Immediately after the spill, the...

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Centex Basshunters clean up local lake

SALADO, Texas — Flooding last fall on Stillhouse Hollow Lake prompted the Centex Basshunters to conduct a shoreline cleanup conservation project in February. “We have done the cleanup here many...

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Ripping current changes grass on Tennessee River

provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority There’s a reason why the Tennessee River is a seasoned host of the Bassmaster Classic — it’s home to some of the nation’s top-ranked...

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Virginia’s tiger bass program

ROANOKE, Va. — Four years ago, fisheries biologists tried to convince Robert Wood that stocking with hybrid largemouths wasn’t the way to improve the bass fishery at Smith Mountain Lake....

Catching and releasing

The 1971 Bassmaster Classic at Lake Mead, Nevada, is remembered as the first world championship of bass fishing — the inaugural running of what has become the Super Bowl of...

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Daily Limit: Biologist lauds derby anglers

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — On a sunny afternoon, Jeremy Risley was waiting to put tournament anglers’ fish in his tank to release back in Bull Shoals Lake. Before the top...

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