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Freshwater Fishing

Freshwater Fishing

Useful Phone Numbers

Beaver Problems/Animal Damage Control — USDA/WS — (662) 325-3014

Boat Registration/Titling — MDWFP — (601) 432-2055

Commercial Freshwater Fishing — Fisheries — (601) 432-2200

Commercial Quail Breeders’ Licenses — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Commercial Wildlife Enclosures — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Disabled Hunting — MDWFP — (601) 432-2055

DMAP (Deer Mgmt. Assistance Program) — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Ducks/Geese with Leg Bands — USGS — reportband.gov

Environmental complaints (state) — MDEQ — (888) 786-0661

Environmental complaints – (federal, Corps of Engineers) — USACOE — (800) 522-5672

Falconry Permits — MDWFP — (601) 432-2196

Field Trial Permits (Bird Dog, Raccoon Hunt, Fox Hunt) — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Fish Kills (on public waters) — MEMA (24 hrs/day) — (800) 222-6362

Hunter Education — MDWFP — (601) 432-2180

Lifetime License — MDWFP — (601) 432-2055

McHenry Shooting Facility — MDWFP — (601) 928-1645

McIvor Shooting Facility — MDWFP — (662) 487-1946 (Charles Ray Nix WMA)

Mississippi Outdoors Magazine — MDWFP — (601) 432-2244 or (888) 874-5785 (to subscribe)

Mississippi Outdoors Television/Media — MDWFP — (601) 432-2250 or 432-2251

Pond /Aquatic Plant / Exotic Species Assistance — Fisheries — (601) 432-2200

Salt Water Regulations — MDMR — (228) 374-5000

Scientific Collecting Permits — Museum — (601) 576-6060

Shooting Preserves — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Sportsman’s License — MDWFP — (601) 432-2055

State Fishing Lakes — Fisheries — (601) 432-2206

Tamed Quail Permit (To train bird dogs) — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Taxidermy Permits — MDWFP — (601) 432-2199

Turcotte Shooting Facility — MDWFP — (601) 859-3421

Reservoirs

Arkabutla(662) 562-6261

Bay Springs(662) 423-1287

Columbus Area Office, COE (Tenn-Tom Waterway)(662) 327-2142

Enid(662) 563-4571

Grenada (662) 226-5911

Okatibbee(601) 626-8431

Pickwick(256) 386-2601

Ross Barnett(601) 856-6574

Sardis(662) 563-4531

Miscellaneous Numbers

Agriculture Museum(601) 432-4500

MS Audubon Society(662) 252-1155

Delta Wildlife Inc.(662) 686-3370

Ducks Unlimited(601) 956-1936

Grand Gulf Military Park(601) 437-5911

Gulf Islands National Seashore(228) 875-9057

Jackson Zoo(601) 352-2580

MS Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce(601) 359-1100

MS Dept. of Environmental Quality(601) 961-5171

MS Dept. of Marine Resources(228) 374-5000

MS Forestry Commission(601) 359-1386

MS Nature Conservancy(601) 713-3355

MS Wildlife Federation(601) 605-1790

Natchez Trace Parkway – Tupelo — (662) 680-4027, Ridgeland — (601) 856-7321

National Forests in MS(601) 965-1600

Natural Resources Conservation Service(601) 965-5205

Pat Harrison Waterway District(800) 748-9618

U.S. Geological Survey(601) 933-2900

U.S. Coast Guard-Gulfport (228) 868-3743

Vicksburg Military Park(601) 636-0583

Wildlife Mississippi(662) 686-3375

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuges, and Fish Hatchery

Bogue Chitto NWR(985) 882-2000

Coldwater River NWR(662) 226-8286

Dahomey NWR(662) 226-8286

Grand Bay NWR(228) 475-0765

Hillside NWR(662) 235-4989

Holt Collier NWR(662) 839-2638

Jackson Office (601) 965-4900

Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR(228) 497-6322

Morgan Brake and Matthews Brake NWR(662) 235-4989

Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee NWR(662) 323-5548

Panther Swamp NWR(662) 836-3004

Private John Allen NFH(662) 842-1341

St. Catherine Creek NWR(601) 442-6696

Tallahatchie NWR(662) 226-8286

T. Roosevelt NWR Complex(662) 839-2638

Yazoo NWR(662) 839-2638

Corps of Engineer Districts and Management Areas

Memphis(800) 317-4156

Mobile(251) 690-2576

Vicksburg(601) 631-5000

National Forests

Bienville(601) 469-3811, Forest

Chickasawhay(601) 428-0594, Laurel

Delta(662) 873-6256, Rolling Fork

DeSoto(601) 528-6160, Wiggins

Holly Springs(662) 236-6550, Oxford

Homochitto(601) 384-5876, Meadville

State Office — (601) 965-1600, Jackson

Tombigbee(662) 285-3264, Ackerman