By Chad Love

From the story on KTIV.com:

The number of pheasant hunters in South Dakota last fall dipped for a third straight year. The Game, Fish and Parks Department estimates there were 69,959 South Dakota hunters and 97,350 from outside the state. It's the eighth straight year there were more nonresident hunters than resident hunters. The GF&P says hunters killed just over 1.6 million pheasants. Spink County had the largest pheasant harvest at 93,770 birds, followed by Lyman, Brown, Tripp and Beadle counties.

By Chad Love

Here's one from the "I graduated with honors from the Captain Quint School of Extreme Shark Fishing" files...

From the story in the Daily (UK) Telegraph:

'Pirates' claim they were just fishing for sharks... with rocket launchers

Five Somali men have protested that they were shark fishermen not pirates despite being intercepted off Somalia's coast after attacking a Dutch vessel with rocket launchers and assault rifles. Europe's first modern trial for the 17th century crime of "sea robbery" has opened in Rotterdam amid protestations of innocence from the accused. The men, facing jail terms of nine to 12 years, are accused of attacking and attempting to hijack the Samanyolu, a Dutch Antilles-flagged ship, while it was sailing in the Gulf of Aden in January 2009.

By Chad Love

From the KTUU website:

U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich have introduced a bill that would remove the requirement that Alaskans purchase duck stamps for subsistence purposes. The federal Duck Stamp Act requires all hunters age 16 or older to purchase and carry a $15 stamp before hunting.