Friday, May 11, 2012
The 2012 fishing season will see the most intense enforcement and prevention campaigns in state history.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is urging boaters to take more responsibility in stopping the spread of aquatic invasive species. “In the past our boating recreation messages were largely safety oriented, which is still important, but more than ever preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species has become a top DNR priority,” said Col. Jim Konrad, DNR Enforcement Division director. “We are urging boaters to take extra care when launching and loading watercraft to stop the spread of harmful aquatic invasive species in Minnesota’s waterways.” Minnesota’s water resources are threatened by numerous aquatic invasive species such as zebra mussels, Eurasian watermilfoil and spiny waterfleas. These species could be easily …
Ice out is occurring earlier and earlier in Minnesota, impacting the state's lakes and fish.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Mike Duval of Brainerd and Tom Jones of Aitkin are Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries biologists. They work extensively on fish habitat issues. In the interview below, they discuss this spring’s early ice-out, and what it means for fish behavior and fishing patterns. Minnesota lakes became ice free very early this year. Was this a fluke or part of a larger pattern? Duval: Early ice-out is occurring around the globe. What Minnesota experienced this year is part of a larger global pattern. Earlier ice-out dates have been observed throughout the Midwest, continental U.S. and more broadly in Canada, Russia, Scandinavia and Japan. John Magnuson, a limnologist, and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Center for …
Minnesota DNR Commissioner pens column on the eve of 2012 fishing opener.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
By Tom Landwehr, Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources As I reflect on things that have shaped who I am, I realize that it is many things and many people, but also that fishing played a major role. I was fortunate my dad, an avid fisherman, exposed me to fishing at a very young age. I still remember dragging a plastic grasshopper along the canoe as he paddled the St. Croix some 50 years ago. I remember summers spent fishing White Bear Lake, near where my cousins lived, and using snails to catch cookie-sized sunfish. And I remember many weekends with extended family at Bayport or some metro lake where we’d wade in shallow water to entice other fish. Dad died when I was very young, and mom did her best to raise six …
Jim
4:43 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
How is the DNR stopping waterfowl and other wildlife from transporting AIS? How does a drainplug in a boat transport an AIS? There is a biological killer of the Zebra mussel being used in Minnesota, contrary to the DNR claim to the contrary. At the same time the Asian jumping Carp are swimming up the Mississippi into the Saint Croix River with NO efforts to stop its spread. MnDNR has NO sense of … more ›