Photo: Tim Wilson with a January 5th Clackamas River steelhead from the Clean Columbia fishing tournament, raising awareness of the dangers of siting the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal near one of our favorite fishing spots, Davis Bar on the lower Columbia River. During the last full legislative session that the Oregon delegates convened (2015), the […]
Some four miles due west of San Diego, the largest proposed fish farm in the U.S. aims to add up to 11 million pounds of tuna and sea bass to the seafood market. The project’s boosters claim the aquaculture enterprise, Rose Canyon Fisheries, is a model of sustainability for the American seafood market. They cite […]
It’s nice to think that salt water fish are managed solely by concerned scientists, who look at the data available and always make decisions that will best guarantee that stocks will be sustainably harvested and available to us in the long term. But that’s not the case. Science plays a role. Both the various coastal […]
The situation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was a frequent topic of discussion at a recent round of town halls that I attended with our Oregon senators, a testament to the harsh feelings that all decisions are made by our most densely populated metro areas, ignoring the needs of rural Oregonians. If you genuinely […]
The renewal of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) has sputtered in Congress, and from my perspective as an avid boater who enjoys fishing trips, lawmakers’ lack of action is putting our nation’s fisheries at risk. If you’re not familiar with this important topic, MSA, as we know it today, became law in […]
Opening Up Federal Waters off Montauk/Block Island to Striped Bass Harvest is Another Bad Idea These days, even the most novice striped bass anglers understand that harvest of striped bass in “federal” waters (from three miles out to 200) is against the law. Such area has been designated as the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). It’s […]
Photo: Super Steelheader’s volunteer, Stevie Parsons, with a southern Oregon Coast lingcod from October 1, 2015 Eating Wild Fish May Be Better for the Planet Yes, I do it, too; make New Year’s Resolutions that typically don’t stick around too long, easing myself back into routine, much more comforting, much easier to adhere to. It’s […]
Folks tend to think of fishing as an innocent pastime, something that takes us back to a cane-pole childhood where cares were few and simple pleasures abundant. Unfortunately, today’s fisheries are as politicized as timber and oil production, with various interests each fighting for a share of the resource. Anglers must play a role in […]
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