Molly Masterton joined the Network and host Tom Sadler for an online Waterside Chat on July 14, 2026. Molly is a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she works to promote sustainable fisheries management and the application of ecosystem-based management tools to ocean resources in the U.S. and abroad. Watch now: In […]
Top photo via Wikipedia I was 13 years old and excited, because I was finally allowed to join my father and two of his friends on a party boat trip, targeting cod on Rhode Island’s Cox’s Ledge. I had fished for cod before, from other party boats, but they were either half-day trips or trips […]
Trees are often not part of the conversation when talking about fishery management. In Southeast Alaska, however, our region’s fisheries depend on and interconnect with our region’s forests, specifically the Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest. The future of the Tongass and Southeast Alaska’s fisheries hang in limbo as the U.S. Department […]
Meredith Moore, Director of the Fish Conservation Program at The Ocean Conservancy, joined the Network for an online Waterside Chat on May 27, 2026. Meredith combines a science background with a desire to find pragmatic solutions that work for people and for the environment. Watch her conversation with host Tom Sadler now: Follow on Substack […]
When the Magnuson Act and I first met, it was 1978, and we were both young and inexperienced. I was lucky enough to get a job with the National Coalition for Marine Conservation (NCMC, now Wild Oceans), an organization that was there at the birth of ocean fish conservation and helped mid-wife it. Two years […]
A version of this article was originally published on June 4, 2026 on the Alaska Marine Community Coalition’s Changing Tides blog, and we are reposting it with permission. You can also read the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s statement about the OOI’s dismantling. Top photo via Wikipedia. Alaska’s coastal communities are experiencing some of the fastest […]
This year’s World Ocean Day hits a little differently. It falls in the 50th anniversary year of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the law that transformed how this country manages its fisheries and set us on a path toward healthier oceans. The ocean provides food, livelihoods, and a natural infrastructure that supports life […]
April 1976 found me at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, finishing up my senior year. I was wandering around campus, drinking too much beer, sleeping too late and, when time allowed, prepping for final exams. It was warm, at least for spring in central New England, so I often wore my […]
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