A preview of the 2017-18 sport fishing proclamations and the setting of the commercial fishing regulations will be among agenda items at the September meeting of the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission.
The meeting will be held at the Pickwick Landing State Park Inn (Conference Room C) located in Counce. The TFWC committee meetings will begin at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15. The regular TFWC meeting will start at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 16. The public is invited to attend all the meetings.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Fisheries Division presented proposed changes to the commercial fishing and mussel harvest proclamations at the TFWC’s August meeting in Crossville. Proposed changes would allow commercial fishermen to use a variety of minnow traps to catch baitfish. Also a proposed change would improve the accuracy of descriptions of mussel refuge boundaries.
TWRA Fisheries Division chief Frank Fiss will present the recommendations for the 2017-18 sport fish regulations. The next year’s sport fish regulations are typically established at the TFWC‘s October meeting, which this year will be held in Knoxville Oct. 27-28.
Mark Gudlin, Wildlife and Forestry Division chief, will give an update on TWRA’s dove fields. The first segment of dove season started on the traditional opening date of Sept. 1 across the state.
The TFWC will be meeting at Pickwick Landing State Park for the first time in almost six years. The commission’s last meeting was held at Pickwick in October 2010.