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LOUISIANA Night hunting from patrol vehicle

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited four men for alleged deer hunting violations in Coushatta on Dec. 5.

Agents cited Cederick J. Thomas, 36, of Vivian; Anthony B. Caldwell, 31, of Coushatta; Adam J. Caldwell, 30, of Natchitoches, and Javarrea Pouncy, 28, of Gloster; for hunting deer during illegal hours and hunting from a moving vehicle.

Agents were on patrol around 8 p.m. on Dec. 5 when they heard shots being fired on the east side of the Red River near Coushatta. Agents went to the area they heard the shots and found a vehicle spotlighting for deer in an open field on private property.

Agents got closer to the vehicle and identified it as a Coushatta Police Department patrol unit. Agents then made contact with the four men inside the vehicle including Pouncy, whom agents identified as an off-duty Coushatta Police Department Officer.

Agents found the men in possession of two antlered deer and three rifles with one of them having night vision capabilities. Caldwell harvested an eight-point buck and is a convicted felon. Agents also found that Thomas harvested a spike buck.

—LDFW

IOWA Fatality among deer hunting-related incidents

Officers with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources responded to several deer hunting incidents, including one fatality.

An individual was shot in the midsection by a member of his party who was shooting at a running deer in southern Muscatine County. He was transported to University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City.

Another individual was treated and released from the hospital in Waukon after a slug grazed his right hand and forearm during a deer drive in Allamakee County.

A hunter was killed after being struck in the torso while hunting the Red Rock Wildlife Area in Marion County, Iowa’s first hunting related fatality of 2021. The incident remains under investigation.

—IDNR

WASHINGTON, D.C. No mako harvest along East Coast

No mako harvest is allowed along the East Coast for the next two years.

At the 2021 annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), counties agreed on the determination.

Commission members also adopted a measure for Western Atlantic bluefin tuna with a total catch limit of 2,726 metric tons resulting in a quota increase of more than 5 percent for U.S. fishermen.

—ICCAT

MISSOURI Merger deal off

Great Outdoors Group, the holding company of Bass Pro Shops/Cabela’s, announced a pending merger with Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc.

However, Federal Trade Commission regulators indicated it would oppose the merger due to concerns over the anti-trust nature of Great Outdoors Group adding another 110 retail locations.

The acquisition cancellation was announced Dec. 3, and Great Outdoors Group will pay a $55 million termination fee.

—Staff report

WEST VIRGINIA Deer harvest up 10 percent

Preliminary data indicates West Virginia hunters harvested 42,674 antlered deer during the two-week firearm season from Nov. 22 to Dec. 5. The harvest is a 10 percent increase over the 2020 harvest of 38,785 bucks.

“Below average oak mast indices may have allowed hunters to better pattern deer movement,” said Paul Johansen, chief of the WV Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Section.

—WVDNR

ILLINOIS Deer harvest totals

Illinois hunters took a preliminary total of 71,675 deer during the seven-day 2021 Illinois Firearm Deer Season that concluded Dec. 5. Hunters harvested a final total of 77,160 deer during the firearm season in 2020.

The preliminary harvest for the second segment of the 2021 firearm season Dec. 2-5 was 21,375, compared with 29,432 during the second season in 2020. The preliminary harvest for the first segment of this year’s firearm season Nov. 19-21 was 50,300 deer.

—IDNR

INDIANA Duck hunters’ boat sinks, one hospitalized

A hunter was hospitalized after his boat sank on Webster Lake.

Kosciusko County Dispatch Center was contacted by a residential alarm company after they were alerted to an unauthorized residential entry to a home on Webster Lake.

During frigid temperatures and forecasted wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, Trenton Stackhouse, 27, and Darick Stiles, 27, set out to waterfowl hunt on Webster Lake near Epworth Forest.

After getting underway, the men quickly realized the conditions were too difficult to overcome. The men attempted to gather their decoys and return to the boat ramp, when large waves overtook their jon boat and it began to sink.

The two hunters, wearing life jackets, grabbed several waterfowl decoys and a floating gun case for buoyancy to swim the several hundred yards to shore. Once on shore, Stackhouse became unresponsive due to severe hypothermia. Stiles then entered an unoccupied home to find shelter to save Stackhouse, triggering the home alarm.

Stackhouse was transported to Kosciusko Community Hospital with severe hypothermia.

—IDNR

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