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Indiana Conservation Officers will extend their Central Dispatch Center to a 24-hour operation beginning Oct. 29 to maintain radio contact with Conservation Officers across the state.
The Central Dispatch Center currently operates daily from 7 a.m. to midnight. The 24-hour operation will begin at midnight Oct. 29. Central Dispatch is located at Paynetown State Recreation Area on Monroe Lake near Bloomington.
Maj. Michael Portteus said, “For the first time in the history of the DNR Law Enforcement Division, Indiana Conservation Officers may be contacted 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling 1-812-837-9536.”
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Indiana Conservation Officers issued several citations over the weekend for various misdemeanor fishing violations.
Bruce Sebastyen of Hammond, Ind. and Zachary Myers of Cedar Lake, Ind. were both cited for fishing within 100' of the Linde dam on the Little Calumet River. Sebastyen and Myers were also cited for possessing a gaff hook. Gaff hooks are illegal to possess on or adjacent to Lake Michigan tributaries.
Illinois residents Stanislaw Janik, Marian Janik, and Peter Janik were issued citations for fishing by illegal methods. The three men were netting trout and salmon in Salt Creek in Valparaiso, Ind.
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Indiana Conservation Officer Tyler Brock recently cited two Ft. Wayne deer hunters for hunting deer by the aid of bait.
Brock had received a complaint from a concerned citizen about the illegal activity. On Oct. 6, Brock allegedly located Richard Balser 23, and Shane Steigerwald 29, both of Ft. Wayne, hunting over a baited area on the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area. Both men were cited for the violation.
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Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the death of a Rochester man that occurred during a hunting trip Sunday on private property in Fulton County.
Conservation Officers were called to the location near Rochester after receiving a report of a man who suffered a gunshot wound.
Kenneth Moore, 28, of Rochester, was shot and killed from an apparent single gunshot to the head. Moore was hunting with three friends at the time of the incident, including a 12 year old and two adults, while participating in the Indiana youth deer hunting season.
At some point, the hunting party split into two groups. Moore and the 12 year old were walking along a corn field when an adult shooter from the other group shot Moore.
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Amid widespread reports of dead deer being found around the state, DNR deer management biologist Chad Stewart said today that laboratory tests have identified a deadly virus as the culprit in four counties, including some in northern Indiana.
EHD, or epizootic hemorrhagic disease, was confirmed in samples collected from dead deer in LaGrange, Miami, Morgan and Sullivan counties. In addition, the State Board of Animal Health has identified EHD at captive cervid facilities in Adams, Marshall, Putnam and Vanderburgh counties and in cattle in Ripley County.