May 2012
From Blog.Chron.com
In TPWD law enforcement Region IV, which covers the coastal
counties from the Louisiana border to Matagorda, wardens responded
to 174 calls concerning nuisance gators during April.
Notable calls included:
Titus County Game Warden Jerry Ash
received information April 22 from a local landowner that his
neighbor had two dead raptors hanging from a tree.
Warden
Ash went to the area and discovered two dead great horned owls
strung up by their feet.
The warden contacted the property
owner who admitted shooting both birds.
His excuse was that the
owls were killing his free-range chickens and guineas.
Warden Ash informed him that the owls were protected and suggested
putting the chickens in a pen.
Citation and civil
restitution issued.
...
Tarrant County Game Warden
Patricia O’Neill received a call April 24 from a citizen reporting
two men keeping undersized fish at Eagle Mountain Lake.
Upon
arrival at the lake, Warden O’Neill observed for a few minutes as
the two individuals continued to catch small fish and place them in
a large ice chest.
When Warden O’Neill finally approached
the men, they did not seem nervous at all, for both of them had a
fishing license.
When Warden O’Neill inspected the ice
chest, she was surprised to see it half full of undersized crappie.
The men received multiple citations for the possession of 50
undersized crappie and for 1 undersized black bass.
After
receiving an education on how to use the Texas Outdoor Annual, the
free booklet listing fishing regulations including size and bag
limits, the two returned to fishing. Case pending.
...
Trinity County Game Wardens Sam Shanafelt and Randy Watts
interviewed a man April 29 about killing a turkey in his pasture.
Earlier in the week, Warden Shanafelt received a call that this
man had killed a turkey on his property before the spring turkey
season opened.
The man admitted to using a .22 rifle to
shoot and kill an Eastern turkey hen on his property a couple of
weeks before the season opened.
He then discarded the turkey
in the ditch alongside the highway.
When asked why he shot
the turkey, he replied, “It was making my property look bad.”
Wardens searched the ditch where the turkey was discarded and
eventually found the remains.
Citations and warnings for
killing or possessing a hen turkey, illegal means and methods, and
waste of game were issued, and civil restitution filed.
Polk
County Game Wardens David Johnson and Ryan Hall on May 3 filed on
three subjects in the Trinity River downstream from the Livingston
Dam for exceeding the daily bag limit of white bass.
The
three were found in possession of 101 fish over their limit.
Citations were issued and cases are pending.
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