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Article: Lake Winnebago spearing season undergoes rule changes
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2005
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Oshkosh More changes are in store for the sturgeon spearing
season on the Lake Winnebago system.
The Natural Resources Board, meeting here last week, unanimously
approved holding a public hearing on three proposed rule changes for
the season, which has already seen major regulatory changes in recent
years.
"We expected the 2005 season to be short and sweet," Ron Bruch,
sturgeon biologist with the Department of Natural Resources at
Oshkosh, told the board. "It ended up being a relatively long
season."
In fact, the season lasted 12 days and included a one-day season
on the system's upriver lakes Butte des Morts, Winneconne and Poygan.
In the past, the spearing season was held on the upriver ...