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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has three added three new fishing piers to Minnesota lakes this summer. They are located on Lake Isabel in Dakota County, Lake Preston in Renville County and Clear Lake in LeSueur County.

The Thirteenth Annual Thursday's Child Bass Invitational will be held this Saturday at Beck's on Lake Wisconsin. Thursday's Child Inc., is a southern Wisconsin organization, which provides a wish or dream to those deserving youngsters with a catastrophic illness.

Aboard Air Force One late yesterday, President Bush signed S. 2766, "The Clean Boating Act of 2008," which permanently restores a long-standing exemption for recreational boats from permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act. This signing of the bill is the capstone moment of a two-year campaign to eliminate an onerous permit program for recreational boaters that would have dictated maintenance and operation procedures, potentially subjected boaters to citizen lawsuits, and put recreational boats under a penalty system designed for industrial polluters.

Teen Anglers ( http://www.teenanglers.org/ ), a free outdoors education program for teens interested in learning fishing and boating skills, is forming a chapter in the southern part of NJ. The first meeting of the group will be Saturday, August 9 at 3 p.m. in the Hunting Shanty at the Tuckerton Seaport.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department today released the name of the young man who drowned in the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River on Friday, July 25. The victim was Christopher Elizardo, age 19, of Dallas, Texas. Elizardo was employed in New Hampshire for the summer and had been swimming in the river with a friend near Lincoln, N.H., when he was caught in the current and swept downriver.

The American Sportfishing Association applauds the bi-partisan actions of the House and Senate with their passage of S. 2766, the Clean Boating Act of 2008. The act will permanently restore a long-standing exemption for the nation’s 18 million recreational boats from permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act. The legislation now goes to the White House for the President’s signature.

Sacramento, California – A new economic study, released Friday by the Partnership for Sustainable Oceans (PSO), demonstrates that two of the three marine protected area (MPA) proposals currently before the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue Ribbon Task Force (BRTF) could have a devastating effect on the economy of California’s North Central Coast. Using available economic and fishing data, the study illustrates the impact that each MPA proposal will have on marine recreational fishing and local economies. Annually, recreational fishing has more than a billion dollar impact on California’s economy.

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Pursuant to Code of Maryland Regulation 08.02.15.12(H), DNR has modified the striped bass December gill net daily catch limit. The December daily catch limit has been replaced with a total allowable weekly catch limit of 2,500 pounds per licensee. This total allowable weekly catch limit will expire at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 31, 2007. This change is recommended by the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission when the December gill net quota is in excess of 200,000 pounds.