Photo: A young Bob Rees holding a couple of ocean-caught salmon out of Westport, Washington. We’ve all been privy to the recent conversations about “market correction,” or “housing correction.” Well, it appears it’s even a more global conversation. The question one might ask is, how high up the food chain will the correction go? Some […]
Here on Long Island, St. Patrick’s Day—March 17—was always the unofficial start of the winter flounder season. That date wasn’t imposed by law. For many years, there was no closed season, and an angler who knew what to do could catch at least a few flounder at any time that the bays weren’t sheathed in […]
I think I’ll call March “emergence month.” As I made my way back home after our first annual Family Fish Camp event held on the north Oregon coast, I can’t help but look with wonder upon the shores of Tillamook Bay and think of a fish use study I helped gather data for nearly 20 […]
The reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act (MSA) 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 […]
Cownose Rays, photo courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation For too many years, biologists tried to manage fish in a vacuum. They focused on the impacts that harvest had on each species; they paid little heed to how the same harvest affected the greater marine ecosystem. That is slowly beginning to change. The Pacific Fishery […]
Actually, I think the Oregon State Legislature knows exactly what it is doing, but yes, fish are literally out of water. Senate Bill 1584 just passed out of committee on Thursday, giving certain Oregon cities the right to draw water from rivers, such as the Kilchis, for municipal needs. Sure, people need water, and relatively […]
Undercover Sting Shows Us Why We Need Better Monitoring of the Fleet Generally, I try my best to avoid writing about New England. Mostly because it’s a train wreck. It’s really the perfect example of what happens when for decades you avoid imposing hard quotas on managed fisheries. Gulf of Maine Cod, the iconic New […]
In the Gulf of Mexico, a small cadre of recreational fishing interests spearheaded by the American Sportfishing Association, the Coastal Conservation Association and the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation are continuing their misguided assault against our nation’s public waters and marine fish resources. Suffer no illusions, the ASA, the CCA, and the CSF want to shift federal […]
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