Storms hurt Louisiana freshwater fisheries

Preliminary estimates indicate at least 165 million fish were killed by the one-two punch of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported in early October

Full-court press against snakeheads

State and federal wildlife officials are taking decisive steps to prevent the spread of northern snakehead fish up and down the Mississippi River.

Westward trek continues

Federal and state officials working in Colorado announced in late September that larval quagga and zebra mussels (veligers) have been found in water samples taken from Grand Lake, Shadow Mountain and Willow Creek reservoirs

Record year for pollution

Last spring's floods that inundated several Midwestern states washed near-record amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Mississippi River and its tributaries

Supreme Court sinks public access

U.S. Supreme Court opted not to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling in a Louisiana case that denies recreational access to what was once considered public water.

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