4 / 8: The split-shot fishing sinkers on the right are made of tin and are shinier than the lead sinkers on the left - and they are also non-toxic to loons and other birds.

Reporting from sacramento — Californians who enjoy fishing, heads up: Gov. Jerry Brown has his eye on your tackle box. He’s especially interested in your lead sinkers, starting with the tiny ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS -- It was the crappie hole off Hay Island, where the fish tended to be deeper, suspended off the bottom maybe 30 feet under the ice in 60 feet of water. The problem was getting ...

For decades a silent epidemic has killed or sickened millions of birds in the wild, from bald eagles and trumpeter swans to mourning doves and endangered California condors. The cause is lead ...

Fragments of toxic lead are left behind in the environment in game and non-game animals shot ... lead ammunition and to take a more scientific approach to the decision on toxic fishing weights.

Big boost for efforts promoting non-toxic fishing tackle The state effort, underway since 1999, will get $1.2 million to convince anglers to switch from small lead sinkers and jigs.

A final argument made by EPA is that populations of loons, which are frequent victims of lead poisoning from fishing weights, are stable or increasing in most of the northern states where lead tackle ...

Separate bills that would ban small lead fishing tackle, ban lead shot on state wildlife lands and offer anglers and hunters free non-toxic alternatives all are in play this year at the state Capitol.

Separate bills that would ban small lead fishing tackle, ban lead shot on state wildlife lands and offer anglers and hunters free non-toxic alternatives all are in play this year at the state Capitol.

Restrictions aim to reduce toxic impacts of hunting, fishing Sun., May 17, 2009 ...

Non-toxic fishing weights aren’t required by law in the state of Tennessee as they have recently become in California. If it ever comes to that, Rex Pendergrass at Watson’s Marine ...