Brain Food: Tasty Grunts Open Windows Into How Coastal Ecosystems Operate
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‘National Ocean Policy’ and What It Really Means for Us
As the Northeast releases a regional plan and the Mid Atlantic gets ready to release theirs, we should be paying attention Okay… This is not a sexy topic. And I hesitate to even write about it here, but damn if it isn’t important… For us… For everyone. And frankly, most of us, including myself up […]
It’s a Complex Food Web Out There; Precautionary Speed Ahead
Photo: Melissa Peterson with a Chinook salmon I just got through reading an article on the anomaly of pink salmon actually returning in larger sizes than they did historically, and subsequently effecting the size and abundance of other, more highly sought-after salmon species in the region. It’s a true testament as to how complex our […]
Fisheries Regulation: A Foolish Inconsistency
Photo: Black sea bass caught off a wreck near Fire Island Last October, I was trolling east off New York’s Fire Island when I happened to glance out to sea. Off in the distance, perhaps two or three miles south of where I was fishing, I noticed a party boat anchored up over an inshore […]
Stumbling Through Disaster
How I Spent my Time During California’s 2015-16 Dungeness Crab Fishery Closure There’s a children’s book called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day that I used to read to my kids. We just had about 155 such days here in California. November Right before the commercial Dungeness crab season was about […]
Conservation vs. Preservation: Protecting Fish & Fishermen from Species Collapse
On 4 May, U.S. Federal District Court Judge Michael Simon ruled for fishing and conservation groups on every major issue in a long-standing landmark lawsuit, National Wildlife Federation, et al. vs. National Marine Fisheries Service, et al., challenging the most recent version of the federal Columbia-Snake River Salmon Recovery Plan and Biological Opinion (the “Columbia […]
ASMFC Successfully Rebuilding Menhaden
Photo by Patrick Paquette New England Anglers Wait for Pogies to Return to Boston I vaguely remember the adults talking about menhaden fishing when I was a boy. Around Boston where I grew up and learned to fish, we call them pogies (not to be confused with porgy, aka scup). In other places they are […]
Divided We Stand: Partisan Politics vs. Common Sense
It’s getting harder to mix fishing with politics, but just like a skunk trip on Tillamook Bay for spring Chinook, there is still something to learn. Trump just earned the presumed Republican nomination and Hillary and Bernie continue to duke it out, likely for not much longer. What we’re learning from this election, is that […]
