{"id":7747,"date":"2019-01-11T23:33:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T05:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2019-01-11T23:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T05:33:52","slug":"as-ice-fishing-explodes-in-minnesota-fish-management-becomes-more-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/as-ice-fishing-explodes-in-minnesota-fish-management-becomes-more-crucial\/","title":{"rendered":"As ice fishing explodes in Minnesota, fish management becomes more crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ice fishing gets easier &#8212; and more comfortable &#8212; but at what cost?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">No one knows how many hours Minnesotans spend ice fishing each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">But it\u2019s millions. Many millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">The state\u2019s three most popular ice fishing destinations \u2014 Lake of the Woods, Lake Mille Lacs and Upper Red Lake \u2014 account for more than 5.5 million hours alone, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Yet one thing is certain. Increasingly, anglers are wetting lines in the confines of a highly mobile shelter on wheels that offers the comforts of home. And they are doing it with ever-improving high-tech equipment. This makes fishing easier and more fun. It also makes fish management more challenging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/as-ice-fishing-explodes-in-minnesota-fish-management-becomes-more-crucial\/504166582\/\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7748 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/01\/ows_15471456061261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/01\/ows_15471456061261-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/01\/ows_15471456061261.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice fishing gets easier &#8212; and more comfortable &#8212; but at what cost? &nbsp; No one knows how many hours Minnesotans spend ice fishing each year. But it\u2019s millions. Many millions. The state\u2019s three most popular ice fishing destinations \u2014 Lake of the Woods, Lake Mille Lacs and Upper Red Lake \u2014 account for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":7748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}