{"id":45773,"date":"2025-07-07T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45773\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:50:13","slug":"louisiana-wildlife-and-fisheries-to-receive-menhaden-study-louisiana-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45773\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries to receive menhaden study | Louisiana Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservation and environmental groups will finally get the results of the first independent study on bycatch involving the commercial menhaden fishery industry off the Louisiana coast.<\/p>\n<p>The report is a major agenda item during Tuesday\u2019s 9:30 a.m. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting set for state Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters on Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>The study is part of a settlement forced by Gov. <strong>Jeff Landry<\/strong> in 2024. Groups opposed to menhaden fishery operations sought a one-mile &#8220;buffer&#8221; off the coast. The settlement with the two major foreign-owned fishery companies set a half-mile buffer zone coastwide with at least one area, Grand Isle, maintaining a three-mile ban on the take of menhaden from its beach.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wildlife and Fisheries release, LGL Ecological Research Associates representatives will present the study, which some conservation organization say will show the bycatch contains thousands of redfish, Louisiana\u2019s only saltwater gamefish.<\/p>\n<p>Bycatch is the term applied to any species not targeted by the intent of the commercial fishery. Other \u201cbycatch\u201d species likely will be speckled trout and Spanish mackerel.<\/p>\n<p>Other agenda items include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hearing a presentation on the agency\u2019s 2025 Waterfowl Hunter Survey to outline specifics of hunters\u2019 preferences in the upcoming decision on how Louisiana will establish waterfowl hunting zones and hunting days\/splits for the next five waterfowl hunting seasons;<\/li>\n<li>Considering resolutions to establish the new Bogue Chitto and the Flatwoods Savanna wildlife management areas;<\/li>\n<li>Receiving reports from Delta Waterfowl and Ducks Unlimited about their work using funds from Louisiana for this year\u2019s waterfowl breeding grounds work;<\/li>\n<li>Considering notices for changes in the state\u2019s Scenic Rivers Program; in the control of outlaw quadrupeds; in rules and regulations in the Nuisance Wildlife Control Program; and, changes to rules governing the Wildlife Rehabilitation Program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The meeting will be available on Zoom via webinar.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey survey<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife and Fisheries\u2019 turkey study manager <strong>Cody Cedotal<\/strong> invites turkey hunters to a website survey as a public component in the wild turkey population survey. An email survey was sent out earlier, and Cedotal said the next step is to gather responses from turkey hunters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis web-based tracking component will allow us to greatly expand our survey. Now anyone can assist us in our effort to keep track of Louisiana turkey populations,\u2019\u2019 Cedotal said.<\/p>\n<p>To access the survey, go to the agency\u2019s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/wlf.louisiana.gov\/subhome\/turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wlf.louisiana.gov\/subhome\/turkey<\/a>, then click the \u201cLA Turkey Survey Data Entry\u201d for instructions and to identify each wild turkey observation.<\/p>\n<p>    Big win<\/p>\n<p>As many as 10 major hunting, fishing and conservation organizations celebrated a victory last week when <strong>Sen. Mike Lee<\/strong>, R-Utah, removed a section of the reconciliation bill package that would have allowed the sale of public lands.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations spirited a letter-writing, calling and email campaign to Lee\u2019s office along with other members of the U.S. Senate indicating public lands are for public use and are not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Groups campaigning to remove this section from legislation included the National Deer Association, the American Sportfishing Association, MeatEater, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, The Sportsmen\u2019s Alliance, the National Wildlife Federation, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Trout Unlimited, Fresh Tracks and the Wildlife Management Institute.<\/p>\n<p>    High school bass<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana high school bass anglers, led by the sixth-place team of\u00a0<strong>Carsen Adcock<\/strong> and <strong>Colton Arnold<\/strong> representing Haughton High School, had 10 teams place among the top 100 in the 223-team Abu Garcia high school fishing national championships\u00a0held on Grand Lake near Grove, Oklahoma, in last June.<\/p>\n<p>The Haughton team landed nine bass weighing 35 pounds, 1 ounce. A team from Georgia won with a 44-1 two-day total.<\/p>\n<p>Other south Louisiana teams in the top 100 included <strong>Carter and Jackson Lanclos<\/strong>, SW Louisiana Legacy (15th, 22-12); <strong>Orin and Sydnee Byrd<\/strong>, Sulphur High (51st, 19-1); <strong>Colton Caskey<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan Procell<\/strong>, Riverdale Bassmasters (56th, 18-12); and, <strong>Eli Campbell<\/strong> and <strong>Jake Glass<\/strong>, Lakeside Warriors (77th, 16-15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservation and environmental groups will finally get the results of the first independent study on bycatch involving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[35651,35641,35643,35644,746,35642,35638,35639,35647,2824,35646,21151,23293,35645,159,35650,62,67,132,68,35640,35649,35648],"class_list":{"0":"post-45773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-abu-garcia-high-school-fishing-national-championships","9":"tag-bogue-chitto-wma","10":"tag-delta-waterfowl","11":"tag-ducks-unlimited","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-flatwoods-savanna-wma","14":"tag-louisiana-wildlife-and-fisheries-commission","15":"tag-menhaden","16":"tag-nuisance-wildlife-control-program","17":"tag-outdoors","18":"tag-outlaw-quadrupeds","19":"tag-public-lands","20":"tag-reconciliation-bill","21":"tag-scenic-rivers-program","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-sen-mike-lee","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-waterfowl-hunter-survey","29":"tag-wild-turkey-population-survey","30":"tag-wildlife-rehabilitation-program"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}