When it comes to fisheries management, you can’t have too much data. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens) requires that “Conservation and management measures shall be based upon the best scientific information available,” and that’s a good thing. Yet it also creates a problem, for a penny-pinching Congress has long denied the National […]
Photo: Bob Rees (left) pictured with Stan Litner and his 60 lb. Kenai River Chinook salmon To the chagrin of some of our readers, no, we’re not talking about the end of my blog, sorry about that. Thanks for all the feedback you are providing, however. The sad news is, I’m referencing an article I […]
“Ocean Planning” Offers Anglers An Opportunity We Should Take If you’ve spent any real time offshore, you know that some spots are more “fishy” than others. To any fishermen worth his/her salt, that’s just a given. Often, a spot’s productivity is due to hard-bottom, structure or rapid depth changes. But other times, for no particular […]
Photo: Tim Wilson with a January 5th Clackamas River steelhead from the Clean Columbia fishing tournament, raising awareness of the dangers of siting the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal near one of our favorite fishing spots, Davis Bar on the lower Columbia River. During the last full legislative session that the Oregon delegates convened (2015), the […]
Some four miles due west of San Diego, the largest proposed fish farm in the U.S. aims to add up to 11 million pounds of tuna and sea bass to the seafood market. The project’s boosters claim the aquaculture enterprise, Rose Canyon Fisheries, is a model of sustainability for the American seafood market. They cite […]
It’s nice to think that salt water fish are managed solely by concerned scientists, who look at the data available and always make decisions that will best guarantee that stocks will be sustainably harvested and available to us in the long term. But that’s not the case. Science plays a role. Both the various coastal […]
The situation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was a frequent topic of discussion at a recent round of town halls that I attended with our Oregon senators, a testament to the harsh feelings that all decisions are made by our most densely populated metro areas, ignoring the needs of rural Oregonians. If you genuinely […]
The renewal of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) has sputtered in Congress, and from my perspective as an avid boater who enjoys fishing trips, lawmakers’ lack of action is putting our nation’s fisheries at risk. If you’re not familiar with this important topic, MSA, as we know it today, became law in […]
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