{"id":26169,"date":"2013-08-27T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26169"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:51:33","slug":"paddlefish-snagging-season-lottery-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26169","title":{"rendered":"Paddlefish Snagging Season Lottery On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3279\" alt=\"GameFish\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Aug 27, 2013) \u2013 North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials have decided to hold off at least a year before starting a lottery for the paddlefish snagging season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawmakers in the 2013 session passed a bill that allows the department to use the lottery for issuing paddlefish tags if and when needed.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department fisheries chief Greg Power says biologists studied the 2013 season and determined that a lottery is not necessary in 2014.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Power says experts will continue to monitor the paddlefish population for possible regulatory changes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A cap on the number of paddlefish caught per year was originally set at 1,500 in 1996, and reduced to 1,000 in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Aug 27, 2013) \u2013 North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials have decided to hold off at least a year before starting a lottery for the paddlefish snagging season. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawmakers in the 2013 session passed a bill that allows the department to use the lottery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26171,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169\/revisions\/26171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}