A View from the Hill: November 2019

A View from the Hill: November 2019

Photo courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol We sailed through summer and are now well into fall. We want to catch you up on a fair amount of action both on and off the Hill. As you may recall, much of May and June was focused on marking up and passing annual appropriation bills […]

A Recipe Fail: ‘Oysters Federal Inaction’

A Recipe Fail: ‘Oysters Federal Inaction’

Photo via BBC World Service To celebrate the end of national seafood month, I wanted to provide a recipe for one of my favorite Louisiana seafood dishes that was created right here in New Orleans in 1889: Oysters Rockefeller. The only problem is that the historic flooding of the Mississippi River has wiped out this […]

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, ASMFC Address Recreational Fisheries Issues

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, ASMFC Address Recreational Fisheries Issues

Black sea bass, photo by Charlie Witek. When the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Bluefish and Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Boards (Management Boards) held a series of joint meetings early in October 2019, they addressed a number of recreational fisheries issues that, in […]

Tom Sadler Presented AFFTA’S Jim Range Conservation Leadership Award

Tom Sadler Presented AFFTA’S Jim Range Conservation Leadership Award

Congratulations to Deputy Director Tom Sadler! Last week, our own Tom Sadler was honored by the American Fly Fishing Trade Association by receiving the Jim Range Conservation Leadership Award, an award given in recognition of exemplary efforts demonstrating a commitment to AFFTA’s policy protocol: Access to healthy habitat creates recreational opportunity that leads to economic […]

Seafood Lovers and the Supply Chain

Seafood Lovers and the Supply Chain

Original post from One Fish Foundation, with an introduction by Colles Stowell. Top photo: Boat to consumer…literally. Opening day for the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market in San Diego. Credit: Eric Buchanan. Most American consumers don’t know where their seafood comes from. In fact, a recent report from the Food Marketing Institute suggests that less than […]

Helping Managers and Fishermen Cope with Climate Change (Part 2)

Helping Managers and Fishermen Cope with Climate Change (Part 2)

Top photo: Captains DeFusco and Sprengle of East Coast Charters with a wahoo they caught in warm August water off Rhode Island. Read the first installment of this two-part series. What climate change impacts are fishermen experiencing and what scientists are doing to help fisheries managers and fishermen prepare is the focus of this article. But […]

Feeling Climate Change in U.S. Waters (Part 1)

Feeling Climate Change in U.S. Waters (Part 1)

Top Photo: A warm water “blob” in 2014 forced sea lion mothers to forage further from their rookeries in the Channel Islands off Southern California. Hungry pups set out on their own, but many became stranded on area beaches. Photo and caption via NOAA Fisheries. Last year our oceans absorbed 93 percent of the heat […]

Support the Young Fishermen’s Development Act

Support the Young Fishermen’s Development Act

Young people in Alaska face mounting challenges to entering commercial fisheries By Linda Behnken and Tara Racine. This piece first appeared in The Cordova Times and the Juneau Empire and is reprinted with permission. Top photo courtesy of National Fisherman, from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. Limited entry programs have reduced the size of the […]