Written by Kyle Schaefer in collaboration with Sascha Clark Danylchuk, Andy Danylchuk and Bri Dostie. Photo by Kyle Schaefer One of the redeemable qualities about striped bass is that, when they are plentiful, these fish are incredibly accessible. We fish for them on foot in downtown Boston, from quiet beaches in Rhode Island, in the […]
We Americans think of Thanksgiving when we think of turkey, but the history of Christmas turkey dinner runs much deeper. While the classic American Thanksgiving turkey feast is a relatively modern 19th century contrivance with its myriad revisionist imperialist overtones, turkey dinner at Christmas dates back to at least the early 1500s, during the reign […]
Photo: Sockeye Salmon Candy Contributors to this blog often write about fishery policy and the love they share of catching fish. Every so often, there’s a discussion of the culinary delights that drive most of us to the sea and fuel our love for seafood. I’ve cooked a lot of fish in my life, but […]
The Marine Fish Conservation Network is hearing from all sectors that times are obviously very tough, and we’ve been looking for resources that can be helpful to small seafood and fishing businesses in making it through these difficult times. Because restaurants that are now closed or reducing hours of business had largely driven the demand […]
Fresh catch with the Gulf Wild tag If someone were to ask you, “Which do you prefer, imported seafood or domestic seafood?” I imagine your instant reaction is that you’d rather eat local seafood caught by an American fisherman. It’s a fact that Americans love seafood; in 2015, we consumed more than fifteen pounds of […]
Atlantic bluefin tuna, photo courtesy of Wikipedia When I was a senior in high school, my German class trekked into Manhattan to attend a play based on the Franz Kafka novel, Der Prozess. I didn’t have a clue about what was going on. Kafka’s work can be difficult enough to understand, even in translation. I […]
Photo:Angler Brian Albano practices catch and release when fishing with Capt. Joe Pagano. Shown with a 30-pound striped bass caught, tagged and released at Pt. Judith Light off Narragansett, RI. Photo via Capt. Dave Monti. bass catch and release fishing has been the subject of an incredible amount of hearsay and conjecture. Maybe it is […]
