MDWFP Archives - Page 23 of 23 - Mississippi Sportsman

Chad Dacus has resigned his post as Wildlife Bureau Chief at the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

Chief of Wildlife Dacus leaving MDWFP

December 21, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi has lost yet another of its prime deer biologists, the third such departure from the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks in 15 months. […]

MDWFP makes cases for illegal cervid importation

November 23, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi conservation officers last week made nine cases of illegal importation of cervid carcasses, enforcing a new regulation passed in May aimed at protecting the state’s deer herd from chronic wasting disease. […]

Biologists in Southwest Mississippi are expecting fish kills in the wake of the heavy rains over the past week. It can cause a problem called "lake turn over" that can reduce the dissolved oxygen fish need.

MDWFP warns of lake ‘turn over’

August 17, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

State fisheries biologists say they are anticipating fish kill reports in Southwest Mississippi related to the historic tropical-like system that had flooded many areas of the coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi. […]