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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal callahan. The

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Speaker 1: sturgeon season on Black Lake, Michigan lasted exactly thirty six

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Speaker 1: minutes this year, as over five hundred anglers competed to

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Speaker 1: reel in one of the six fish allowed to be taken.

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Speaker 1: The season was scheduled to run from February five through nine,

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Speaker 1: or until the six lake sturgeon quota had been reached.

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Speaker 1: With so many anglers fishing all at the same time,

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Speaker 1: that didn't take long. The season opened at eight am

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Speaker 1: on February five and ended at eight thirty six am

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Speaker 1: the same day. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources had

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Speaker 1: originally set the limit at seven fish, but they knew

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Speaker 1: that was so many anglers to fish could easily be

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Speaker 1: pulled at the same time, so they dropped the quota

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Speaker 1: back down to six. Anglers were allowed to use spears

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Speaker 1: as well as hooks and lines. According to the Michigan

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Speaker 1: Department of Natural Resources, five of the cots sturgeons were male,

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Speaker 1: one was female, and they ranged from forty six to

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Speaker 1: sixty two inches and twenty three to sixty seven pounds.

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Speaker 1: These particular fish aren't what you'd call elusive. All six

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Speaker 1: have been previously caught by either the Department of Natural

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Speaker 1: Resources or Michigan State University. The biggest, a sixty two

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Speaker 1: inch sixty seven pound mail, had been captured every year

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Speaker 1: of the spawning run from two thousand two to two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty, which means he had eighteen chances to learn

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Speaker 1: his lesson. But he thought about that when he wasn't

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Speaker 1: tossed back in the lake this time around. Department of

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Speaker 1: Natural Resources law enforcement officials were scattered across the lake

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Speaker 1: to monitor the catch and announced the end of the

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Speaker 1: season once six fish had been caught. Anglers were required

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Speaker 1: to report when they had harvested a sturgeon, and all

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Speaker 1: five hundred and sixty five anglers on the lake received

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Speaker 1: a text message each time a fish was caught. Lake

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Speaker 1: sturgeon are a threatened species in Michigan. Commercial fishing is prohibited,

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Speaker 1: and if you couldn't tell, sport fishing is closely regulated.

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Speaker 1: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources uses streamside rearing facilities

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Speaker 1: to allow young sturgeon to imprint on a specific river

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Speaker 1: in the hopes that they'll return to that river to

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Speaker 1: spawn as adults. The facility that stocks the Black Lake

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Speaker 1: n R stocks hundreds of sturgeon in the Upper Black

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Speaker 1: River every year. This week, we've got the bad bill

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Speaker 1: round up. That's right. Get ready to hit rewind because

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Speaker 1: you won't want to miss any of this. It all

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Speaker 1: pertains to you. I'm gonna take a minute right here

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Speaker 1: to just give you a disclaimer on the bad bill

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Speaker 1: round Up. For each bill, I'm gonna announce what state

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Speaker 1: it's in, like Idaho, you know, California, Washington. What have

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Speaker 1: you keep in mind when I'm saying those words, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you if you don't

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Speaker 1: live in that state. Every single one of these bills

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Speaker 1: applies to you. If you like to be outside and

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Speaker 1: fish or danglar worm in a creek here and there,

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Speaker 1: you need to take these examples and be aware of

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Speaker 1: what's going on in your neck of the woods, because

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Speaker 1: I promise you something similar is we're just living in

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Speaker 1: that time and you have got to hold your elected

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Speaker 1: officials accountable. Now Jumping back to my week, I had

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Speaker 1: a productive week, but uh, you know, not for like

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Speaker 1: super fun reasons. I had my very first non emergency

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Speaker 1: care adult doctor's visit since high school, got blood drawn

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Speaker 1: highly recommended, and I just got the results back for

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Speaker 1: my blood drawing and according to the dock she said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll just keep on trucking. Don't change the

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Speaker 1: thing for another thirty nine years, is what I believe.

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Speaker 1: She said, that's good news. As a bit of a celebration,

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Speaker 1: looking at gluten free biz anyway. In other news, H

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Speaker 1: include this here because it's a great reminder to all

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Speaker 1: have your dog, they can and will surprise you, which

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Speaker 1: is why the really smart people don't deal with surprises anymore,

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Speaker 1: Hey you Tennessee, it's HB one. Would transfer ownership of

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Speaker 1: the twelve thousand, eight hundred acre Nally Wildlife Management Area

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Speaker 1: from the state to Murray County. And remember, Murray County

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Speaker 1: is where I've been turkey hunting for a couple of

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Speaker 1: you are the father for all of us northern folks.

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Speaker 1: That's pronounced Murray in Tennessee. As in bill for relaxing times,

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Speaker 1: make it sunctory time. If successful, the county would remove

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Speaker 1: the management of the state's Wildlife Resource Agency and commercially

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Speaker 1: That land can't legally be returned to its original owners,

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Speaker 1: and it is now important wildlife habitat which is also

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Speaker 1: It's very important place. If you think this place is

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Speaker 1: you Kentuckian's House Bill three nine five, which would remove

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Speaker 1: where it's overseen by the governor, to become its own,

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Speaker 1: freestanding branch of government, which doesn't sound like a bad idea. However,

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Speaker 1: appoint four of the nine Fish and Wildlife Commissioners, whereas

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Speaker 1: now the public chooses nominees and the governor appoints them.

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Speaker 1: The interests of hunters and anglers and the interests of

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Speaker 1: agriculture are both important. Sometimes they're very symbiotic, but that

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Speaker 1: much agg influence over fish and wildlife would disrupt the

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Speaker 1: balance that we need to maintain. Kentuckians, call your representatives,

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Speaker 1: or as another option, there's a form letter that you

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Speaker 1: Hunters and Anglers website to take action on this one. Vermonters.

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Speaker 1: Senate Bill two oh one would band foothold traps and

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Speaker 1: build to eighty one would ban hunting coyotes with dogs.

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Speaker 1: Bill one essentially does away with an independent Fish and

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Speaker 1: Wildlife Board altogether. Right now, Vermont Board is made up

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Speaker 1: appointed by the governor and limited to one term. Build

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Speaker 1: one nine would allow the state legislature to appoint eight

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Speaker 1: rubber stamp for changes made by the legislature and judging

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Speaker 1: by the anti trapping and anti hunting legislation, they're introducing

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Speaker 1: this term. Well, it's going to be up to you

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Speaker 1: as to how you want your state Game Commission to operate.

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Speaker 1: Send an email to testimony at l e g. Dot State,

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Speaker 1: dot VT, dot US and weigh in on bills too

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Speaker 1: to haunts. HB five oh seven would allow lighted knocks

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Speaker 1: and expandable broadheads for archery hunters, regardless of your personal

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Speaker 1: beliefs on those technologies. Reach out to your state reps

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Speaker 1: and let them know that weighing in writing laws on

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Speaker 1: lighted knocks and expandable broadheads is just a poor use

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Speaker 1: a good form on their website to oppose this one. Again.

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Speaker 1: American model of wildlife conservation is science is the proper

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Speaker 1: The state's Wildlife and Fisheries Commission proposed a slate of

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Speaker 1: in specific wildlife management areas, and as they are mandated

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Speaker 1: With that public input, the Commission will then decide, based

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Speaker 1: Changes like that on the legislative level can take years

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Speaker 1: on with a quick stop at the access desk. A

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Speaker 1: judicial update out of Colorado, the Court of Appeals has

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Speaker 1: ruled in the favor of eighty year old angler Roger Hill,

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Speaker 1: who in two thousand eighteen was forced off of a

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Speaker 1: surrounding land. Unlike other Western states, Colorado's constitution does not

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Speaker 1: riverbed belongs to the public. Rather, the Colorado Court of

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Speaker 1: Appeals ruled that Hill's access must be determined by the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. That means that if this action of the

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Speaker 1: Arkansas was used for commerce at that time, it could

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Speaker 1: and find a local, knowledgeable steel dealer near you. They

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Speaker 1: will get you set up with what you need and

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Speaker 1: they're not going to send you home with what you don't.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again and I'll talk to you next week.