For this week’s post, there are several fish-related topics I’d like to briefly touch upon: On MSA – You know that feeling after the candles are all blown out, all the leftover chocolate cake is consumed and the party is over, and you have to go back to work? Well, it’s been a fun party, […]
I spent a fair part of my Wednesday driving down to Oregon’s capital, Salem, to testify in front of the House Special Committee on Small Business Growth. Yeah, I know, first time I’ve heard of it too. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to address this special committee, especially since we were the only game […]
Photo: From left to right, Bob Rees, Paul Englemeyer & Lyf Gildersleeve It’s different here, in Washington DC. I don’t often find myself traveling 3,000 miles for a birthday party, but here I am, walking the halls of Congress, telling the Oregon delegation of the importance of preserving the most important components of the Magnuson-Stevens […]
Last week, as we celebrated 40 candles on the cake for the Magnuson Stevens Act, Oregonians got some pretty significant wins for fish just prior. It’s been a long time coming, and even for common-sense measures such as dam breaching and protecting our forage base, it takes a long time and an incredible amount of […]
Photo: Bob Rees with Chris Sessions on the Wilson River near Tillamook, OR. (Photo by Buzz Ramsey) It isn’t every day that you get a call from the legendary Buzz Ramsey to go fishing one of “his” two rivers, in which he made a name for himself. There aren’t many anglers in the Pacific Northwest […]
Photo: York Johnson with a 23-pound Tillamook Bay hatchery spring Chinook. I, maybe too often, tout myself as a proud sixth-generation Oregonian, deeply invested in the health and well-being of Oregon’s natural resources. Some would say I advocate for fish and wildlife for selfish reasons; I fish and I hunt. Call me greedy, my opponents […]
Photo: A young Bob Rees holding a couple of ocean-caught salmon out of Westport, Washington. We’ve all been privy to the recent conversations about “market correction,” or “housing correction.” Well, it appears it’s even a more global conversation. The question one might ask is, how high up the food chain will the correction go? Some […]
I think I’ll call March “emergence month.” As I made my way back home after our first annual Family Fish Camp event held on the north Oregon coast, I can’t help but look with wonder upon the shores of Tillamook Bay and think of a fish use study I helped gather data for nearly 20 […]
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