New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists tagged hundreds of walleyes in two popular North Dakota fisheries earlier this spring to determine exploitation and harvest.

Walleyes were fitted with jaw tags at both Rice Lake in Emmons County, and Antelope Lake in Pierce County, as part of one-year studies.

Tagging fish for study purposes in North Dakota is not uncommon. For example,...