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Dove season start brings boost to Valley businesses - Imperial Valley Press Online

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Come sunrise this morning, the cracks and booms of shotguns were to be heard throughout Imperial Valley fields and farmlands as the first doves of the season were brought down mid-flight. And as scores of dove-hunters flocked to the Valley, they will …

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Taiwanese fishing vessel intercepted by Coast Guard - Kuam News 8

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The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted and seized a Taiwanese fishing vessel located approximately 400 miles from Guam.  The Coast Guard cutter Washington located the crew of the 72-foot fishing vessel, the Te Hung Fa.   It’s alleged the crew was found …

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12:08 p.m. - Coast Guard seizes ship over alleged illegal fishing - Guam Pacific Daily News

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The fishing vessel was 17 miles within the U.S. exclusive economic zone when seized, according to the Coast Guard. The crew of the 72-foot fishing vessel, Te Hung Fa is alleged to have been illegally fishing for sharks, tuna and other types of fish …

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Good news for recreational fishers - Scoop

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New fishing rules that come into affect on 1 October bring good news for recreational fishers nationwide, says Minister of Fisheries Phil Heatley. A better method for taking rock lobster and the opening up of the Taranaki paua fishery are among a …

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Fishermen to enroll in sectors Tuesday - South Coast Today

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Fishery regulators are inching forward with the development of new fishing cooperatives that will manage themselves and their catch in the 2010 groundfishing season. Each cooperative, known officially as a sector, is made up of groundfish permit …

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Skeet’s Beat - ESPN.com

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I wrote last week about getting ready to go to the Indy Racing League event at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, as well as going fishing with two of their race officials. Those were two really cool days I’ll never forget. The race was amazing. My buddy …

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The Velvick Touch - ESPN.com

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I’m in Las Vegas with Mary — she’s taking some well-deserved time off — practicing on Lake Mead for the U.S. Open next week. It’d be nice to score a third win. Putting something like that on my résumé would be really great. I know it’s a long …

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Top Story - Calaveras Enterprise

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A marijuana leaf taken from the first load of plants from remote gardens hidden in the canyons between Sheep Ranch and Murphys. Enterprise photo by Joel Metzger The early morning silence was shattered by a rapidly approaching helicopter Wednesday as …

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Zebra mussels to have little impact on Josh - Berkshire Eagle

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The paddlers at the Josh Billings RunAground Triathlon should escape relatively unaffected by the presence of zebra mussels in Berkshire County. “It was hard,” Spector said. “I didn’t put my boat in the water for about a week. I didn’t want to think …

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Outdoor Report - Northern Virginia Daily

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 under Fishing Help | No Comment

The Outdoor Report is published by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Many events are planned across the state for the month of September. Eastern Shore Birding and Wildlife Festival September 17-20 During the fall migration …

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Zebra muscles to have little impact on Josh - Berkshire Eagle

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The paddlers at the Josh Billings RunAground Triathlon should escape relatively unaffected by the presence of zebra mussels in Berkshire County. “It was hard,” Spector said. “I didn’t put my boat in the water for about a week. I didn’t want to …

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New threat for peregrine falcons? - Bennington Banner

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What do your computer and a peregrine falcon have in common? For most of us in rural New England, it isn’t speed. Rather it is polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), a group of chemicals used as flame retardants. There are dozens of varieties of …

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Andy Lee injured playing gridiron on US road trip - News.com.au

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ANDY Lee is nursing a fat lip, a bruised face and four stitches in his mouth after coming a cropper while playing gridiron with a group of teenagers in the US. Lee, who is travelling through the US with his Fox FM co-host Hamish Blake on their …

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Weekend motoring with Jess and Jacque is always an adventure - Jackson Sun

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My husband and I call this “Adventures in Motoring with Jess and Jacque.” So let me tell you how this happens. We set out from the house early on a Saturday morning and go to an event somewhere in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas or Alabama …

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High Numbers Of Seed Scallops On Georges Bank, Low Numbers In Mid … - Science Daily

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2009) — A NOAA Fisheries scallop survey off the northeastern coast between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows high numbers of juvenile “recruit” sea scallops and ocean quahogs on Georges Bank tempered with weak numbers …

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Top ten websites for enjoying the great outdoors - Technology.timesonline

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It’s the last bank holiday of summer, and those who aren’t DIY-ing or snatching a spot of barbecue action between the inevitable rain showers will be itching to get a lungful of the great outdoors. Great Britain has 11,000 miles of coastline plus …

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Gotta have it: Life Gear Glow Stick - Detroit Free Press

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Here’s a little item that costs $4.99 and could save your life. It’s the Life Gear Glow Stick, a 7 1/2 -inch long, 3/4 -inch wide plastic cylinder that includes an LED flashlight, a whistle and a battery-powered glow stick that can be a flasher or a …

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Outdoors Insider, with Dale Sunderlin: A look at the 2009-10 deer … - Ashtabula Star-Beacon

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We harvested a record 252,017 deer last season. The good news is that it appears that more antlerless opportunities and greater hunter awareness of regulatory changes, not more deer, were responsible for the increase. Deer population indices all …

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Eagle Creek’s Gear Bag the antidote to “gear fear” - San Francisco Gate

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 under Fishing Help | No Comment

A river-rafting guide I know calls it “gear fear” - that panicky thrashing of your duffel as you search for something you worry you might have forgotten to pack. Eagle Creek’s Double Down ORV Gear Bag is the antidote to gear fear. Designed to be used …

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Larry Pyne: Give squirrel hunting, eating a try - Burlington Free Press

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 under Fishing Help | No Comment

If you’ve never thought about hunting gray squirrels, think again. And with squirrel season set to open Tuesday, now’s a good time to do so. The little gray ghosts of the hardwoods have a lot going for them. Squirrels are abundant, fun to hunt, and a …

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Zimo: Be smart; wear a life jacket - Idaho Statesman

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 under Fishing Help | No Comment

- There must be a properly fitting, easily-accessible Coast Guard-approved life jacket for each person on a motorized or non-motorized boat. - Children 14 and younger must wear an approved life jacket when they are in a boat 19 feet in length or less …

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In brief - Lafayette Journal and Courier

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Lafayette police were looking Saturday night for a man who robbed a Lafayette drug store that afternoon. According to police, a man robbed the Walgreens drug store at the corner of 18th and South streets around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. He gave the clerk a …

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Fishing: Listen for strikes on the surface in the dark - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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It was raining when I arrived at our vacation campsite on Venango County’s Justus Lake. Rather than get all of the gear wet while packing in, I set up the tent and drove into Franklin to get a hot meal and wait out the weather. The clouds cleared by …

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Gear up for late summer picnics - San Francisco Gate

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Chill out. Can’t have a party without the cold drinks. An ice chest is one way to go. But an outdoor refrigerator is better - no having to buy sacks of ice or dealing with frigid slush while fishing for a beer. Soleus makes a plug-in outdoor party …

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Catch a pink, guaranteed - Everett Herald

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There are very few fisheries in the state which are so good, so can’t-miss, that professional guides can offer their dudes a guarantee. But the odd-year humpy circus in the Snohomish system is one. Guide and Snohomish resident John Thomas puts …

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Hollingsworth is walleye wizard - Buffalo News

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The cycle of walleye wanderings is down around the Western New York waters of Lake Erie. This seasonal year, the eastward-moving schools of Ohio ’eyes didn’t arrive off Dunkirk Harbor until sometime in early August, just in time for the Cabela …

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Kids Fishing Clinics a success - Omaha World-Herald

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Fishing was meant to be this way. Big smiles. Loud laughter. Hooked hearts. Every summer, the Nebraska Walleye Association conducts 13 free Kids Fishing Clinics in cites across the state. It’s a service project designed to give something back to …

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Is it wrong that I don’t hate ABC’s Crash Course? - Tvsquad.com

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 under Fishing Help | No Comment

ABC’s newest stunt game show Crash Course looks exactly like the kind of show that bloggers and critics watch just so they could put their “Suck Extinguishers” to good use. And yet 45 minutes of TV viewing later, I’m not even feeling the need to …

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Oregon camp cooks depend on Dutch oven - KVAL

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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The first supper prepared by Europeans in Oregon’s interior was almost certainly cooked in a Dutch oven. The menu for Lewis and Clark’s first meal here is unknown, but we do know that Dutch ovens and guns were the most common …

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India provides flood relief material for Tamil IDPs - Press Trust of India

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Colombo, Aug 29 (PTI) To facilitate the resettlement of Tamil IDPs in their original homes ahead of the monsoon season at Wanni in Sri Lanka, India has provided a consignment of flood relief material for them. “The Indian Government has provided a …

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