Archive for April 27th, 2010

Search Underway for Missing Hiker in Franconia, N.H.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Assorted Outdoors | No Comments »

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department has a search underway for a missing man presumed to be hiking in the Mt. Lafayette area of Franconia, and seeks information from anyone who may have seen the hiker. It is believed that Peter Murphy (age 46) of Littleton, N.H., may have gone hiking on the Skookumchuck Trail in Franconia during the weekend. After failing to report for work on Monday, April 26, co-workers reported him overdue, and local police searched for Murphy’s car, which was eventually located at the Skookumchuck Trailhead just off Route 3 in Franconia. N.H. Fish and Game was notified around noon on Tuesday, April 27. Searchers are currently working the trails and woodland areas searching for any sign of Murphy. Read more..

NYC Subway Car Sinkings Reach End Of The Line For Now

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Environmental News | 1 Comment »

It’s the end of the line for the deployment of New York City subway cars on Delaware’s artificial reefs—at least the end of it until the next line of subway cars are shunted into retirement. The last 24 older model cars made available as reefing material recently went down onto the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef, bringing the total number of subway cars sunk on the state’s artificial reefs to 1,329 since the first deployment in 2001. The retired cars came to Delaware waters as always from New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. “It’s been a most productive association and a win-win situation” for New York City and the state of Delaware in recycling the subway cars as reefing material, said Jeffrey Tinsman, Delaware artificial reef program manager with DNREC’s Division of Fish & ... Read more..

Grouper Fishing Reopens In Atlantic and Monroe County Waters

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Fishing News | No Comments »

The recreational and commercial harvest of shallow-water groupers (including gag, black grouper, red grouper, scamp, red hind, rock hind, coney, graysby, yellowfin grouper, yellowmouth grouper and tiger grouper) will reopen on May 1 in all Atlantic Ocean and Monroe County waters. The harvest of these groupers has been closed since Jan. 1 to address overfishing of grouper in the Atlantic. A 3-fish-per-person aggregate daily recreational bag limit applies for all groupers in Atlantic and Monroe County waters, and the captain and crew of for-hire vessels are not allowed to keep any species in the aggregate grouper bag limit. Anglers may take no more than 1 gag or black grouper (not both) within the aggregate grouper limit in Atlantic and Monroe County waters, and dehooking tools must be aboard commercial ... Read more..

Harrisonville Man Lands Second State Record In Two Years

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Fishing Reports | No Comments »

Missouri has a new state-record black bullhead, and Nicholas J. Wray has his second fishing record in less than two years. Wray, 23, caught the 2-pound, 4-ounce fish on a jug line April 9 at a farm pond in Cass County. The bullhead nudged aside the previous record by 4 ounces. In 2008, Wray caught Missouri’s first state-record river carpsucker, a 2-pound, 3-ounce fish that came from Cass County’s South Grand River near Amarugia Highlands Conservation Area. He did it by design, having noticed that no one had bothered to apply for a record for the species previously. Read more..