LELAND, Miss. (AP) — State wildlife officials have restocked Deer Creek near Leland with bluegill fish. Leland Mayor James Lowe tells the Delta Democrat Times the creek’s fish population had dwindled during the summer when the creek reached near record low levels. Lowe says a fish kill last year also depleted the number of fish [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 5,2012
Tags: amphibian, contamination, ecosystem, environment, figh, fish kill, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, pollution, restock, settlement, spill, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — After a three-hour journey in a truck-mounted fish tank, thousands of young bluegills were released into the West Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish, La., last week. In small batches, state wildlife officials released 200,000 bluegills — raised at a state hatchery in Alexandria, La., — into the river near Interstate 59 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 9,2012
Tags: angling, environment, facility, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, fisherman, fishermen, fishing, habitat, hatchery, house, outdoors, recreation, renovation, restock, wildlife
TUPELO — Officials say they’re about halfway through $1.2 million in renovations at the Private John Allen National Fish Hatchery in Tupelo, but have not yet decided how to use the Victorian-era house there once the work is done. It might be used to house state or federal workers or for hatchery volunteers, or it [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 14,2012
Tags: angling, catfish, environment, fauna, fish, fishing, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, natrual resources, Nature, outdoors, pollution, release, restock, spill, state agency, water, wildlife
PEARL RIVER COUNTY — Approximately 14,000 pounds of harvestable-sized blue catfish will be released into the Pearl River near Picayune (Walkiah Bluff) as part of a continued recovery effort by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). The catfish, donated by a Mississippi catfish producer, [...] [...]
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