Given that requirement, he said it's unlikely they could drift the 450 river miles from Wahpeton to Lake Winnipeg without adult zebra mussels showing up somewhere along the way.
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Kluberton said that an entry level, open access fishery in the Bering Sea seemed to respond to requests the board heard. A parallel fishery also operates in state waters in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, which generally follows federal rules. In 2006, the board created a state waters Pacific cod fishery that is southwest of the new fishery, in the Aleutian Islands, which also takes 3 percent of the BSAI ABC. That fishery had a GHL of 20.7 million pounds in 2012, although...
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The first half of duck season runs through Dec. 1 in Zones One and Two and statewide for goose season. The hunting seasons then reopen on Dec. 14. Duck season runs uninterrupted through Jan. 8 in the Panhandle.
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Oct. 27--MOMBASA, Kenya Every day, 96 elephants are gunned down in Africa. Among them were19 Chinese, nine Vietnamese, six Tanzanian, three Thai, one American and one South Sudanese, Mbugua said. "The dog cannot be fooled. About 35,000 were lost in 2012 alone." Last year, Kenya lost 384 elephants.
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It's well-deserved. --- Dokken reports on outdoors.
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The berries typically go to buyers in Immokalee and other agricultural centers, where both legally and illegally obtained berries are sold. The poachers reach through thin fan-like leaves to the berries clumped around the tree's thick, winding trunk, where they could encounter snakes or stinging insects. Since there was no evidence to tie the driver to the berries, he was allowed to leave. Arrests are rare.
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Parents consider the "kid cages" a reasonable precaution. Defenders of the wolves note there have been no documented wolf attacks in New Mexico or Arizona. The group offered literature by Ayn Rand and screened the documentary "Wolves in Government Clothing," which equated rampaging wolves with an out-of-control federal government. Said one Arizona rancher at the event: "Is this politically driven?
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At the Northwest Angle, muskies are hitting along shorelines and shallow weedbeds. Drifting large sucker minnows on the shoreline breaks of Pelican Lake and Big Detroit has produced muskies. Wood ducks and blue-winged teal have dropped out of the harvest, and there are no appreciable numbers of ringnecks using the WMA.
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...elk numbers are still over their objective in the Lima Peaks country and in the Gravelly and Snowcrest ranges, said FWP Dillon biologist Craig Fager. As for deer, whitetails and mule deer are common in Region 2, but are generally below historic averages. The FWP has restricted hunting opportunities for antlerless deer to limit any further declines and speed population increases, but hunting for white-tailed bucks should be improving overall. Hunting for mule deer is by permit...
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In California, the birds are found in Inyo, Alpine and Mono counties. Federal biologists estimate that about six groups of birds are occupying about half of their historical range. The bird, also called the "prairie chicken," is dependent on sagebrush and is in peril because of habitat loss.
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