Over 875,000 hunting and fishing licenses were sold last year, according to the 2025 State Fish and Game Protection Fund Report. Revenue from license fees goes into the Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating reports of dead fish and a “strong, septic odor” at Dean Lake in eastern Des Moines. According to a news release, the DNR began receiving ...

Iowans who love to fish can make plans to teach a friend without needing to buy a license as the state’s annual Free Fishing Weekend runs this Friday through Sunday. Iowa DNR fisheries biologist Joe ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Unseasonably warm temperatures have compromised ice quality south of Iowa Highway 3, making ice fishing unsafe in the area. “Ice fishing in central and southern Iowa, is not advised ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) says it will release rainbow trout in nine locations across Iowa, including two spots in Siouxland. According to the Iowa DNR, ...

The top fish is the common shovelnose sturgeon, the bottom fish is the endangered pallid sturgeon. (DNR photo by Mark Flammang) The Iowa DNR says a recent survey to document the population of a ...

GARNER, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a release of copper from an animal mineral nutrition facility near Garner. The liquid flowed into ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced they will stock rainbow trout at various ponds across the state this winter. Here’s the full list: ...

New year, new license. Iowa’s 2025 hunting and fishing licenses expired on January 10. Licenses are available at 650 ...

A sign for trout stream fishing on the Turkey River sits behind a trout pond at Big Spring Fish Hatchery in Elkader on May 28. The river is open to the public for fishing and has an angler access ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has documented the federally endangered pallid sturgeon in the Des Moines River for the first time. Biologists collected two of the rare fish this ...

State officials have recovered the body of a Creston man who disappeared while fishing in Union County. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday, June 19, that it had found the ...