I don’t remember the first time I went to a menhaden hearing, but I sure do remember the first time I saw menhaden in person. It was the 1970s and I was fishing from the Castle Island Pier in South Boston. Boston Harbor was still one of the dirtiest bodies of water in the country, […]
After years of coordination with stakeholders the final products are out, but what does it mean for us? Late last week, the National Ocean Council released the nation’s first ocean plans. This may not sound like a big deal, but it is. Because really, it’s the first comprehensive effort to provide a holistic, regional look […]
I was attending the November meeting of New York’s Marine Resources Advisory Council when the topic of lobsters came up. The southern New England stock of American lobster has collapsed, and a state biologist was doing her best to explain just how far abundance had fallen and what the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) […]
Despite What Some Are Saying, We Have To Do Something with Fluke Over the years, I’ve written a lot about summer flounder… mostly using it as an example of how the conservation provisions of federal fisheries managed law (AKA the Magnuson Stevens Act – MSA) have worked to rebuild stocks… and subsequently provided access to […]
Michael O’ Leary with a Tillamook Bay spring Chinook from June 2016 Some funny things happened in this last election. Besides the obvious, not all of the votes went the way you would think. One of my fellow Marine Fish Conservation Network bloggers mentioned on a recent call, that a district that voted strongly for […]
![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,” […]
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: 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 […]
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