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Resources Board Considers Backing Off Statewide Fish Movement Ban

Fish Virus Was Found In Some Wisconsin Waterways

Updated: 6:55 pm CDT October 22, 2007

The state Natural Resources Board could vote on Wednesday to end contingency plans for a statewide ban on fish movement to stop the deadly VHS virus, or viral hemorrhagic septicemia.

Temporary state rules currently in place banned fish movement off Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, the Mississippi River and the Lake Winnebago system. A provision in those regulations would extend the ban statewide if the virus turns up in one more inland water.

The board is expected to vote on a permanent rules package that would step back from that. Those rules would extend the movement ban only to specific bodies of water where the virus is found.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fish expert Mike Staggs said that the agency is confident VHS hasn't spread and anglers shouldn't be inconvenienced by outbreaks hundreds of miles away.

The virus causes fish to bleed to death, officials said.

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