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Supporters of legislation that would ban small lead fishing jigs and weights in Minnesota say it will prevent needless loon deaths due to lead poisoning. Opponents say that nontoxic alternatives to ...

Staff Report WATERBURY If you like to fish, Vermont Fish & Wildlife biologists are asking for your help. You can assist in the recovery of Vermont s endangered common loons and save other water birds ...

A bill banning the sale of small lead fishing weights and jigs is back at the Minnesota Legislature, but it's not clear if the bill will float this year or sink yet again. The bill, introduced last ...

So why isn’t there a ban on lead fishing sinkers? After all, lead shot for waterfowl hunting has been banned for more than a decade. After reading a recent Associated Press story about a lead fishing ...

One of the first fishing skills I learned back in the innocent days of my youth was the exact amount of pressure required to pinch a lead splitshot on my line without having it be too tight -- and ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation is crowdfunding for its lead sinker buy-back program, seeking funds so it can exchange anglers’ lead sinkers for non-toxic tackle. Every year ...