Category Archives: Fishing

I knew Asian carp have a bounty being paid out if you could get in good with the authorities but what I didn’t know was how lucrative the regular market is. Apparently some Chinese processors are paying up to 90 cents a pound: Government-funded carp-catchers represent only a … Continue reading →

A die off of sand eels in New Jersey has remained thus far unexplained, with theories ranging from pollution to “unusual lunar activity” being bandied about. Too bad, eels are good eats and they fatten up the other fish. Something … Continue reading →

Environmentalists and animal rights groups have long pressured the government to reduce the numbers of commercial game fish quotas in an attempt to destroy both the recreational and commercial fishing industries. The Obama administration has been very accommodating to these … Continue reading →

From Outdoor Life’s Newshound blog: A shipment of some 8,000 rainbow trout used to stock several Western Maryland streams earlier this month contained some fish with whirling disease, a parasitic-borne syndrome often fatal to salmon and trout species, especially rainbows. … Continue reading →