Outdoors

LA Creel, LDWF's near real-time landings data collection program, indicates that 607,581 pounds, or 65.0% percent, of Louisiana’s 2024 annual private recreational allocation of 934,587 pounds have been harvested during the 2024 Red Snapper season

A team of conservationists from Audubon Zoo and the U.S. Forestry Service recently released six young Louisiana Pine Snakes in the Kisatchie National Forest in north-central Louisiana. Louisiana Pine Snakes are widely considered one of the rarest snakes in the country

More recently, the snails have begun to infest rice and crawfish ponds in southwest Louisiana where they are having severe economic impacts. Mitigation efforts are critical to reducing the snails’ impacts to our natural waterways and rice/crawfish aquaculture systems.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) would like to congratulate the Louisiana 4-H Shooting Sports Team for winning the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championship. It is Louisiana’s fourth national championship in the last five years.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) enforcement agents will take part in Operation Dry Water from July 4 to July 6.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced the 2024 spring inshore shrimp season will close at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 1, 2024, in all state inside waters from the Mississippi/Louisiana state line westward to the Louisiana/Texas state line.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has released its 2024-25 hunting regulations pamphlet online at the LDWF website.

This closure is necessary because NOAA Fisheries is projecting the commercial annual catch target of 58,650 pounds whole weight will be met on June 30, 2024.

“Louisiana has a long list of conservation success stories that are supported by our hunters and landowners. This will be another example of one of those success stories," said Secretary Madison D. Sheahan.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reminds anglers that the new Red Drum size and daily creel limits go into effect and will be enforced beginning […]

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service designed this grant program to provide mooring accommodations for transient recreational boaters with vessels greater than 26 feet in length. 

The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office will host a FREE Hunter Education Field Day on Saturday, August 10, 2024. The Field Day is recommended for those ages 14 or older, and participants must have completed the home study course.

A ROLP is required to possess tunas, billfish, swordfish, amberjacks, groupers, snappers, hinds, cobia, wahoo, gray triggerfish, and dolphinfish in Louisiana waters. This permit is free of charge.

Get your gardening gloves out! Here are the best vegetables that can be planted now and in the coming weeks in southern Louisiana.

New Red Drum size and daily creel limits go into effect and will be enforced beginning June 20, 2024!!