Mississippi Business Journal » restock http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Delta creek restocked with fish following drought http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/04/69202/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=69202 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/04/69202/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:10:19 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=69202 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 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/04/69202/feed/ 0 River restocking continues following massive fish kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/05/river-restocking-continues-following-massive-fish-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=river-restocking-continues-following-massive-fish-kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/05/river-restocking-continues-following-massive-fish-kill/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:33:23 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=64884 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 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/05/river-restocking-continues-following-massive-fish-kill/feed/ 0 As renovations wrap up, officials unsure of use for hatchery facility http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/09/as-renovations-wrap-up-officials-unsure-of-use-for-hatchery-facility/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=as-renovations-wrap-up-officials-unsure-of-use-for-hatchery-facility http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/09/as-renovations-wrap-up-officials-unsure-of-use-for-hatchery-facility/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:15:06 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=59438 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 [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/09/as-renovations-wrap-up-officials-unsure-of-use-for-hatchery-facility/feed/ 1 Agencies re-stock river as part of post-spill recovery efforts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/14/agencies-re-stock-river-as-part-of-post-spill-recovery-efforts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=agencies-re-stock-river-as-part-of-post-spill-recovery-efforts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/14/agencies-re-stock-river-as-part-of-post-spill-recovery-efforts/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:35:32 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=58550 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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