Over the past half-dozen years, the summer flounder stock has been having some problems, although most anglers probably didn’t notice until the last season or two. Annual trawl surveys conducted by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) revealed that summer flounder spawning success had been below average in every year between 2010 and 2015, the […]
Photo by John McMurray As fishermen, we need to advocate and stand up for the fish. Because if we do not, no one else will, and there will be no fish in the sea to catch for commercial or recreational fishers. On Wednesday, November 9th, the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) issued a press release asking […]
Photo: Jackson Curran with a colorful Kilchis River chum salmon from October 22nd, 2016 Chum salmon remain the big question mark in my opinion. As you’ve likely heard me gripe about before, when I first entered the professional field of pursuing fish (I’m a 20-year fishing guide), chum salmon were one of the first wild […]
Photo: the Block Island windfarm is nearly complete… now communities and fishermen are learning to live with the turbines. The first ocean wind farm in our nation is now built and almost operational off the cost of Block Island, Rhode Island. Now we are learning how to live and fish with these giant wind turbines. […]
Tamara Mautner from Garibaldi Charters with a large lingcod taken from a deep reef out of Garibaldi on October 12, 2016 It’s a day many bottomfishers have been waiting for since the previous fall: the deep reef opener. The deep reef actually opens on October 1st, but in order for this to actually be a […]
Photo: peanut bunker accidentally snagged out of a thick school This year, New Jersey’s surfcasters will be thankful that there are giant schools of this year’s young, “peanut” bunkers moving down the coast, causing striped bass and bluefish to come in tight to the beach within casting distance. It has been decades since this occurred, […]
The Marine Fish Conservation Network is a nonpartisan organization. The thoughts and opinions of this author are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Network. This election year is one of the big ones, when races for the President, the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate happen at the same […]
Did NOAA take us a few steps back with recent National Standard guidance? How we manage fisheries in federal waters is of course dictated by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). The Act (or law) contains 10 National Standards, which are intended to guide the eight regional management councils when they create fishery […]
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