Maine won’t extend its ice fishing season this year

In spite of spring conditions that have left many of the state’s lakes and ponds with thick coverings of ice, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has decided it won’t extend ice fishing season on northern lakes and ponds beyond the end of March. “People have made requests to the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to extend the ice-fishing season due to current ice and snow depths in portions of the state,” Commissioner Chandler E. Woodcock said in a prepared statement issued through his assistant, Christl Theriault Thursday morning.

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