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19th time the state record smallmouth bass has been bested.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The row crop harvest in South Dakota is being slowed by cool, wet conditions.
• The Agriculture Department says in its latest crop and weather report that the sunflower harvest is 31 percent done, the corn harvest 63 percent complete and the soybean harvest 92 percent done. The soybean and corn harvests are close to the long-term average pace, but sunflowers are well behind.
• The report says that in addition to harvesting, South Dakota producers have been busy the past week moving hay and grain, moving livestock and preparing for winter.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Fisheries crews conducting an annual salmon spawning operation on Lake Sakakawea on the Missouri River in North Dakota say they found good numbers of fish throughout the run, enabling them to exceed their goal.
• Crews collected 1.9 million eggs, easily surpassing the goal of 900,000 eggs, the state Game and Fish Department said.
• "We were able to exceed our own egg collection goals early, which enabled us to provide assistance to South Dakota and Montana in meeting their egg needs for 2013," said Russell Kinzler, the agency's Missouri River System biologist.
• Chinook salmon can't naturally reproduce in North Dakota. State and federal wildlife officials collect eggs when the salmon begin their spawning run in October, raise the young salmon at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery near Riverdale and stock the fish. Officials plan to stock about 200,000 salmon in Lake Sakakawea next year.
• The average size of Lake Sakakawea females this year was 5.7 pounds, about 1 pound smaller than 2012, according to Game and Fish. The Missouri River females, which are typically larger than the lake fish, averaged 7.5 pounds.
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