The Iowa Natural Resources Commission has approved spending $75,000 on a filter system for the Spirit Lake fish hatchery in Dickinson County to improve the production of muskellunge or muskies. DNR ...

Spring is spawning season and Iowa’s fish hatcheries are working to grow the fish to fill lakes across the state. Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery Manager Kim Hawkins says they were very successful in ...

ORLEANS, Iowa (KTIV) - On Friday April 14 it was announced the gillnetting operations on the Iowa Great Lakes will not be taking place this year. Kim Hawkins, Manager of the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery, ...

An excursion boat at sunset on West Lake Okoboji near Arnold's Park. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Students pursuing graduate degrees in fisheries biology, aquatic ecology and ...

The Big Spring Hatchery near Elkader in Clayton County, seen Friday in an aerial photo, raises more than 200,000 rainbow trout a year. The fish are part of the 130 million fish a year the Iowa ...

The 195 acre land will be restored to wetland and prairie in the Spirit Lake North Watershed Project. A new land acquisition could help boost water quality in northwest Iowa’s Spirit Lake. Iowa ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KUOO) - An annual rite of spring and gillnetting operations is underway on the Iowa Great Lakes. “This year we need around a thousand female walleyes to get the number of eggs the ...