If you’re not an angler who fishes the coast somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts, you may never have heard of a tautog. Where I live on Long Island, we usually call them “blackfish,” which pretty well describes their appearance, although it doesn’t say anything about their white chin and dirty-white belly, or the thick, sturdy […]
Surely there are endless metaphors to describe Representative David Jolly’s (R-Indian Shores, FL) Gulf Red Snapper Data Improvement Act. While not quite a “silver bullet,” I would call it pretty darn close. The proposed Gulf Red Snapper Data Improvement Act does contain important measures, which will not only enhance the Gulf of Mexico reef fishery, […]
Sustainability, it seems, is worth a pretty penny these days. We pay premiums so that we can brag about solar cells powering our homes, we patronize businesses that showcase their green credentials in their vehicle fleets, and we try to buy products that prominently display recycled logos or “sustainably harvested” stamps on their packaging. Yet […]
It was one of those incredible fall days, September 30th, out of Brookings, Oregon. I really was “living the dream,” as so many of my friends tell me. I was on the lower Chetco River, an iconic salmon super-highway of large fish, some of the largest in Oregon, and the real fun was still a […]
In this summer’s edition of the Wild Oceans Horizon, I wrote about the tremendous progress we’ve made securing measures to save big fish from indiscriminate fishing and aid in the recovery of billfish, bluefin tuna and oceanic sharks. Today, large areas off the east and west coasts are closed to fishing with multi-mile longlines and […]
Fishing in September: It’s Tillamook Time Where are all the Tillamook Hogs? Home waters, there’s nothing quite like it. I finally got to transition back to Tillamook Bay this week. After what I would term a disastrous September Buoy 10 season due to a lack of hatchery coho, it was a great move. My favorite […]
I recently read an editorial in a local angling newspaper that criticized the way summer flounder are managed. It was written by Nick Cicero, a founding member of the Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund (SSFFF). Back in the late 1980s, summer flounder abundance bottomed out, and overfishing was so bad that it was hard […]
A Florida native and niece of a well-known tournament boat builder, I grew up fishing with some of the best in the business. As a soon-to-be mom of the son of a commercial fisherman, it thrills me to know that my son will grow up experiencing all our local waters have to offer — fishing […]
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