by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission | Oct 17, 2019 | News
Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioners unanimously voted to approve special veteran’s waterfowl hunts to coincide with this year’s youth hunts at Thursday’s regularly scheduled meeting. The hunt originally was approved at the federal level earlier this year as a...
by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission | Oct 16, 2019 | News
Lasting heat of summer and stable conditions paid off for Arkansas hunters lucky enough to draw a tag in the 2019 alligator season. Of 147 tags available, 84 hunters managed to successfully take an alligator during the two-weekend season. The harvest is on par...
by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission | Sep 21, 2019 | News, News Archive
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a special proclamation Friday in the Governor’s Conference Room at the state capitol recognizing Sept. 22-28, 2019, as Arkansas Hunting and Fishing Week. He also proclaimed Sept. 28, 2019, as National Hunting and Fishing Day in...
by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission | Sep 14, 2019 | News, News Archive, Sports
Sunday marks the first shot hunters have at taking a duck his year, and it’s a tricky shot at that. The early teal season is open Sept. 15-30, so hunters can have an opportunity to harvest some of these small ducks that typically migrate before the rest of the...
by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission | Aug 7, 2019 | News, News Archive
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists are battling a beast of a problem at Lake Wallace in Drew County, and it’s a fight that’s raged since 2005. That’s when water hyacinth, an invasive plant that overruns everything in its path, was first discovered in...
