Louisiana modifies menhaden fishery buffer zones, shifting some from ½ mile to ¼ mile and adjusting others for conservation.

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial ...

The LWFC voted to shrink the buffer zones around Louisiana beaches to a quarter-mile, removing a prior half-mile buffer zone ...

Fishing in his neighbor's pond, Houma native Tim Trahan said he didn't realize what he had hooked until he reeled it in. "Actually, I was amazed by the size of it," he said. "I thought I was back at ...