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 […]
September is my favorite month of the year. Fall salmon, the last remaining viable run of wild fish, come back to our rivers and stage in our estuaries and the nearshore, where we have good access to them. Dinner-plate sized Dungeness crab are readily available, albacore are biting, elk are bugling, upland birds are flushing […]
Most folks reading this blog already know about the death of the inimitable William F. “Zeke” Grader, Jr., a legendary veteran of the fight to protect fishing communities and the fishing way of life. Zeke ended a long, vicious battle with pancreatic cancer earlier this month, throughout which he never lost his quintessential combination of […]
Hard-charging, tempting, and challenging the skills and wills of the anglers that pursue them, Gulf of Mexico gag grouper are truly a top-targeted species when plying near-shore and offshore waters. The current Gulf of Mexico gag grouper fishery management plan is now a top target for the Gulf Council at their upcoming October meeting. As […]
The reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act that will dictate management of our nation’s fisheries for years to come is currently working its way through Congress. Much of the debate has focused on the effort to add more “flexibility” to rebuilding timelines (some flexibility already exists in the act). Unfortunately, a lot […]
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