The Fisheries and Wildlife Board voted on several regulatory changes of interest to Bay State fishermen. The new regulations will become effective as of January 1, 1999. The 2 landlocked salmon daily creel limit was unchanged. The only water body that remains a Special Brown Trout water is South Pond, Brookfield. A proposal to increase the daily creel limit for trout on ponds, lakes and major rivers from 3 trout to 5 trout was rejected by the Board.
Spring is the best time to remember that wild animals belong in the wild.
This is almost never the case. The parent animals are nearby, waiting for the human threat to leave, so that they may resume caring for their offspring. The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife receives hundreds of calls each spring from people seeking advice on how to deal with young wildlife. In the case of white-tailed deer fawns, the scenario is almost always the same. The caller has found a spotted fawn, lying motionless in tall grass at the edge of a field.