One of the most important forage fish in the ocean is in trouble, but YOU can do something about it Top photo: Atlantic herring, via John McMurray Atlantic herring are in bad shape. No ifs, ands or buts about it. A recent stock assessment confirmed what most of us already knew – the sea herring […]
The only thing more fun than catching fish is sitting back at the dock with a beer in hand telling stories about the day’s catch. Fishermen are natural storytellers who love talking about fishing, spinning tales of the one that got away or the fish that gets bigger every time the story is told. Fishing […]
Photo: Carr Fire, via Wikipedia My family’s 10-acre textile farm is 20 miles away from the spot where the infamous Carr Fire, near Redding, California, started. I happened to check the California fire map before heading to Whiskeytown Reservoir for some relief from the 106° heat. Carr ultimately burned 230,000 acres, killed 8 people, destroyed […]
Anybody who grew up fishing or hunting enjoys special memories from places of profound significance. If for you that place involved public lands, including beaches, local parks, and national parks or refuges, then odds are that place was purchased or improved with funding from the Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Way back in 1965, […]
Photo by John McMurray For the past year and a half, anglers have been bombarded with press releases from various industry and anglers’ rights groups, urging them to support two bills, H.R. 2023 and S. 1520, which are both formally titled the “Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act,” but are better known as the “Modern Fish […]
The Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council this year implemented an exempted fishing permit that allowed the states to set red snapper seasons for federal waters. The program was designed to improve data collection but also increase the number of days on the water for recreational anglers. When the Gulf Council set a 3-day federal […]
Fresh catch with the Gulf Wild tag If someone were to ask you, “Which do you prefer, imported seafood or domestic seafood?” I imagine your instant reaction is that you’d rather eat local seafood caught by an American fisherman. It’s a fact that Americans love seafood; in 2015, we consumed more than fifteen pounds of […]
Photo: Peche’s shrimp I love fishing. I also love seafood. As a recreational fisherman, I almost invariably release what I catch. Which, incidentally, belies the rhetoric of some of my fellow recreational anglers who advocate for fuzzier science, looser regulations, longer seasons, more allocation, and larger limits. “We want to catch more fish! We need […]
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