The Symposium panel included Charles Witek, Esq., author/blogger and recreational fisherman, West Babylon, NY; Russel Dunn, NOAA Fisheries, National Policy Advisor on Recreational Fisheries; Ben Bulis, President, American Fly Fishing Trade Association; John McMurray, Charter Captain, One More Cast Charters, Oceanside, NY, member of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and author; Chris Macaluso, Director, […]
If I asked you to name a famous chef or five, you could probably rattle them off without thinking much about it. You would not be able to name a famous line cook, which is not your fault, because there are none. So I feel like I need to introduce myself. My name is Kendall, […]
Everybody wants more fish. Commercial fishermen make more money when they can harvest more product, while recreational fishermen have long cast envious glances at the commercial harvest, and tried, by various means, to convert some of those commercial landings into their own. It’s not just an inter-sector conflict. In both commercial and recreational fisheries, there […]
Photo: Lucas Bissett As divisive as the topic of red snapper management is, it’s no surprise that popular opinion paints this as an all or nothing argument. On one side, you have federal oversight and keeping the status quo and on the other you have state management with no federal oversight. I say, why not […]
Photo: Astoria harbor and bridge, via Flickr/Wikipedia. Astoria, Oregon is the perfect setting for turning back the clocks to reminisce on the old ways of the fishermen. This place used to house the saltiest people of the sea who nestled into town after crossing the world’s most dangerous intersection where the grand Columbia River enters […]
Chefs by nature are not usually interested in taking political stances. As many of them are business owners, they are loathe to run the risk of alienating 50 percent or more of the population, all of whom are potential customers. The margins for restaurants are already razor thin, so even the slightest drop in business […]
A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to assist with a desert bighorn sheep (ovis canadensis nelson) recovery and translocation project in the Chihuahuan Desert of west Texas. We captured 82 bighorns by helicopter, carried them to a processing station where we collected blood samples, hair samples, nasal swabs and the like; GPS […]
I remember fishing like the ocean would never run out of fish. I’m 92 years old today, and I was 52 when the Magnuson-Stevens Act was written. Back then I didn’t know anything about it. It seemed like any other Washington, DC project happening at the time: far-out ideas a faraway place. I was more […]
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