Sports

A weekly round-up from NH Fish & Game, region by region in time for the opening of NH’s fishing season April 23.

Conservation Officers responded to the police department and documented the incident in which Daniel Hebert, 51, of Merrimack, was hunting rabbits off of Hazen Road in Whitefield when he was shot inadvertently by 52 year old Dan Sterling of Bedford, who was in the same hunting party.

NH Fish & Game conservation officers were called on over the weekend for a series of rescues, one of them involving a snowmobiler from Rhode Island who apparently died after striking a tree, and the discovery Feb. 28 of a deceased hiker on Castle Ravine Trail in Randolph.

Fish and Game Officials would like to use this incident as a reminder to those recreating on frozen water bodies of the dangers associated with ice. This year’s inconsistent weather patterns have made ice conditions vary more than usual, even up in the northern parts of the state.

The Fish and Game Commission is proposing to issue a total of 50 bobcat permits through a lottery process. The draft season would be similar to New Hampshire’s fisher season, with December trapping and January hunting. The proposal would take effect in December of 2016.

Alcohol, thin ice and lack of snow were cited by New Hampshire Fish & Game officers as contributing to two unrelated snowmobile accidents over he weekend.