![When Will We Get it Right? [Volume Three]](https://conservefish.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Furniture-store-in-a-floodplain-150x150.jpg "When Will We Get it Right? [Volume Three]")
Photo: The Tillamook Bay floodplain’s newest resident As I delve into my 50th+ blog post for the Marine Fish Conservation Network, I try and not overlap issues that I’ve covered before. Thankfully, human behavior has left me with a whole lot of low hanging fruit. It is for this reason, this post is “Volume 3,” […]
“Everyone who catches a fish is happy, and this brings me joy,” said Capt. Dave Monti. Here Walt Galloway (with tautog), David Hansen (black sea bass) and Gerald Pesch (cod) caught three species when fishing off Newport, R.I., thanks in part to the Magnuson-Stevens Act. During the holiday season I often reflect and write about […]
Recent menhaden concentrations give us a glimpse of how good it can be, and how good we can make it. Top Photo: Bass with bunker, by John McMurray All pun intended in that title, but yes, the election is over… And that’s good, ’cause I’m damn tired of it. So let’s move on, and focus […]
Photo: Steve Brustein of Portland, ME caught this cod off Newport while fishing for tautog last November November is a great recreational fishing month in the Northeast. Species to target include tautog, black sea bass and, for the past two years, recreational cod fishing has been very good off Rhode Island. Cod fishing was so […]
Photo: pro guide Chris Vertopoulos with a Wilson River Chinook, late October 2016 What’s Ahead for Recreational Sports Men & Women? The election is over. At least the crazy election ads are no longer playing. Most in the conservation community are reeling from the election results for fear of massive rollbacks in conservation efforts, but […]
Over the past half-dozen years, the summer flounder stock has been having some problems, although most anglers probably didn’t notice until the last season or two. Annual trawl surveys conducted by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) revealed that summer flounder spawning success had been below average in every year between 2010 and 2015, the […]
Photo by John McMurray As fishermen, we need to advocate and stand up for the fish. Because if we do not, no one else will, and there will be no fish in the sea to catch for commercial or recreational fishers. On Wednesday, November 9th, the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) issued a press release asking […]
Photo: Jackson Curran with a colorful Kilchis River chum salmon from October 22nd, 2016 Chum salmon remain the big question mark in my opinion. As you’ve likely heard me gripe about before, when I first entered the professional field of pursuing fish (I’m a 20-year fishing guide), chum salmon were one of the first wild […]
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