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Article: Board OKs emergency fishing limits; Curbs cover Lake Winnebago system
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2007
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As expected, the Natural Resources Board on Thursday approved
emergency regulations that expanded restrictions for anglers and
boaters to the Lake Winnebago system.
The action by teleconference was taken after the discovery last
week of viral hemorrhagic septicemia, a disease that causes fish to
bleed to death.
Officials also said they would begin looking for the virus in
other water bodies. They identified "high-risk" waters that attract
anglers and boat traffic from areas where the virus might already be
present.
Those waters include Oconomowoc, Okauchee and Pewaukee lakes and
Lac La Belle in Waukesha County, Big Cedar Lake in Washington
County, Elkhart and Sheboygan lakes in Sheboygan ...