# 2016-2017 Refuge-Specific Hunting and Sport Fishing Regulations
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-10-04 · Effective 2016-10-04 · 81 FR 68874
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-23190
- **Category:** wildlife-refuge
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 68874
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 32
- **Publication date:** 2016-10-04
- **Effective date:** 2016-10-04
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-HQ-NWRS-2016-0007
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, add 1 national wildlife refuge (NWR or refuge) to the list of areas open for hunting, increase the hunting activities available at 12 other NWRs, open 1 refuge to fishing for the first time, and add pertinent refuge-specific regulations for other NWRs that pertain to migratory game bird hunting, upland game hunting, big game hunting, and sport fishing for the 2016- 2017 season.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/04/2016-23190/2016-2017-refuge-specific-hunting-and-sport-fishing-regulations)
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