We urgently need your calls to our U.S. Senators, Klobuchar and Smith, asking them to oppose the Coast Guard Authorization Act because it contains bad ballast water provisions that will increase the risk of new invasions of aquatic invasive species. The Senate will hold a vote on the Coast...
On Monday afternoon April 16, both the Minnesota House and Senate will debate bills that limit the state's ability to protect our groundwater, which is both our drinking water and the lifeblood of trout streams. Existing Minnesota law gives the state authority to protect groundwater and drinking water. It is...
March 15, 2018 Minnesota Trout Unlimited (MNTU) welcomes today’s announcement by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that it will make long overdue changes in stocking practices in North Shore rivers in order to preserve and rebuild Minnesota’s unique wild steelhead fishery, while allowing time for full recovery of...
On November 16, 2017 we hurriedly launch our newly designed website, warts and all, when our previous site crashed unexpectedly. While the new site is not completed and has some outdated information, we will be working diligently to revise content and them begin importing lots of new content. Thank you for your patience...
Increased funding is needed to protect and improve our fisheries, yet legislative leaders are ignoring anglers’ request for a small fee increase to maintain quality fishing. The legislative session ends Sunday, BUT CALLS TODAY CAN TURN THE TIDE. Tomorrow may be too late. Please take 2 minutes and place short calls (or send...
The MN Legislature is poised to remove the 50 foot buffers from trout streams in place since the 1980s. They plan to roll back basic water protections, push an anti-public lands agenda and cut core funding from DNR and MPCA as well. Legislators are claiming that they are not hearing from...
Anglers needed to gather scale samples from steelhead in 2017; and to harvest Kamloops to reduce disastrous hybridization For the past two decades DNR has been playing a dangerous game of roulette with our North Shore steelhead fishery. Despite numerous studies indicating that stocking domesticated hatchery strain “kamloops” rainbows would likely...
MNTU and a broad coalition of Minnesota’s largest fishing, hunting and outdoors groups is warning state lawmakers that inaction could harm fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation and jeopardize the state’s $5.5 Billion tourism industry. In a letter to top leaders of both parties in the Minnesota House and Senate, the...
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture today announced important steps to protect the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), which is home to Minnesota’s native inland lake trout stocks. The agencies denied Twin Metals’ application for renewal of two hard rock...
Forty-one trout streams are slated to lose their protective “designated trout stream” status under a proposal by the MNDNR. Comments are due by Monday November 7, 2016. This is your last chance to provide evidence that these streams recently did, currently do, or could sustain trout with some active...
