Starting next week, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation will be hosting a series of five public meetings around Lake Ontario to solicit public comment on a draft “Sportfishing Restoration and Spending Plan.” The public meeting for Region 9 will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at Lewiston-Porter High School.

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 Fred Trost, who hosted the popular "Michigan Outdoors" hunting and fishing television show, has died. He was 61.  Trost died Wednesday of a rare lung condition after spending several weeks in the hospital, his son, Zachary Trost of East Lansing, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

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Fall fishing season is hitting high gear with the annual salmon run up the Greater Toronto Area's major rivers, but police and wildlife officials are on the look out for a catch of another kind: poachers.

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Fisheries biologists aren’t sure what caused the yellow perch populations to crash in Green Bay and Lake Michigan, but it appears the fish are on the rebound.Bill Horns, Great Lakes fisheries specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, estimates that public hearings on increasing the harvest will be held in May.

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