The restrictions on bait fish, designed to prevent the spread of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia in New York waters, have been in effect since last winter. After considerable public comment, the regulations were altered and reconfigured several times, but the last word — in the form of a final draft — was adopted last Wednesday.

A deadly virus has changed the way Ohioans will fish this year.A federal ban on the moving of live fish across Great Lakes state and province lines aims to stop the spread of VHS, or viral hemorrhagic septicemia, from the lower Great Lakes.