I was compelled to jot down some interesting numbers that pertain to North Dakota’s outdoors as Jeb Williams, Game and Fish Department director, recently addressed the joint Senate and House Legislative Natural Resource committees.

Did you know the Game and Fish Department manages 439 fishable waters which make up

851,462 acres? For comparison sakes, North Dakota is made up of 70,704 square miles. Land is 68,900 square miles, while water is 1,804 square miles; of those there are 1,330 square miles that are considered fishable.

Fourteen million fish were stocked in those waters last year (second highest on record), including 37 community fishing ponds in urban areas providing more proximate fishing access to underserved anglers.

Also, recent numbers showed that 142,272 residents and 55,

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