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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
LITTLE ROCK – More young trumpeter swans have been brought into Arkansas and released into the wild. The Iowa to Arkansas relocation project, a three-year experimental effort, needs reports of sightings of swans to help track their movements. Reports of any swans seen in Arkansas – trumpeters, tundras or mutes – should be sent to [...]
From AGFC Arkansas Outdoors Newsletter: MOUNTAIN HOME – Zebra mussels recently were found in Bull Shoals Lake and Missouri’s Lake Taneycomo. Gerald Walsh, a retired marine biologist, and Kirk Wright, a retired professional invertebrate collector, found two mature zebra mussels near Lead Hill Marina on Bull Shoals Lake Sept. 13. The specimens were taken to [...]