Wildlife In The News

by River Valley Nuisance Wildlife Control

Subscription Options

You are viewing the Freshwater category

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Break Ground on “Green” Aquatic Conservation and Education Center

Mammoth Spring National Fish Hatchery, in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, will soon be home to one of the most energy efficient buildings ever built by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A ground-breaking ceremony will take place at the future site of the Aquatic Conservation and Education Center on March 23, 2011.  The event begins at [...]

Cause of Arkansas River fish kill still unknown

OZARK – Despite a battery of tests conducted by the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, the exact cause of the Arkansas River fish kill that took place on Dec. 29, 2010, still eludes biologists at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. A resident of Roseville first reported the fish kill near the Roseville boat [...]

AGFC to begin eradication of snakeheads on March 20

BRINKLEY – Almost a year ago, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission fisheries biologists confirmed a breeding population of northern snakehead, an invasive species from Asia, near Brinkley. The population was discovered when a farmer found an unusual fish wiggling along a gravel farm road near a ditch and contacted the AGFC regional office in Brinkley. [...]

Northern snakehead makes Arkansas arrival

BRINKLEY – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission fisheries biologists confirmed a breeding population of northern snakehead, an invasive species from Asia, in Lee County on April 28. The population was discovered when a farmer found an unusual fish wiggling along a gravel farm road near a ditch and contacted the AGFC regional office in Brinkley. [...]