Recently, after a meeting in New Orleans that was held behind closed doors, the state fisheries managers of the Gulf states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) decided to dramatically increase the lengths of their state-water seasons for red snapper, effectively shortening the federal-water seasons for recreational anglers to 11 days. While increasing their seasons, […]
Fall brings to mind one thing for the NW sportsman or -woman, and that is harvest time. Whether you’re deer hunting or pursuing the largest salmon that return to Oregon’s waters, you reap the benefits of some of the finest weather and most-productive period of gathering that Pacific Northwesterners get to witness. There must be […]
If you’re not an angler who fishes the coast somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts, you may never have heard of a tautog. Where I live on Long Island, we usually call them “blackfish,” which pretty well describes their appearance, although it doesn’t say anything about their white chin and dirty-white belly, or the thick, sturdy […]
Surely there are endless metaphors to describe Representative David Jolly’s (R-Indian Shores, FL) Gulf Red Snapper Data Improvement Act. While not quite a “silver bullet,” I would call it pretty darn close. The proposed Gulf Red Snapper Data Improvement Act does contain important measures, which will not only enhance the Gulf of Mexico reef fishery, […]
Sustainability, it seems, is worth a pretty penny these days. We pay premiums so that we can brag about solar cells powering our homes, we patronize businesses that showcase their green credentials in their vehicle fleets, and we try to buy products that prominently display recycled logos or “sustainably harvested” stamps on their packaging. Yet […]
In this summer’s edition of the Wild Oceans Horizon, I wrote about the tremendous progress we’ve made securing measures to save big fish from indiscriminate fishing and aid in the recovery of billfish, bluefin tuna and oceanic sharks. Today, large areas off the east and west coasts are closed to fishing with multi-mile longlines and […]
Fishing in September: It’s Tillamook Time Where are all the Tillamook Hogs? Home waters, there’s nothing quite like it. I finally got to transition back to Tillamook Bay this week. After what I would term a disastrous September Buoy 10 season due to a lack of hatchery coho, it was a great move. My favorite […]
I recently read an editorial in a local angling newspaper that criticized the way summer flounder are managed. It was written by Nick Cicero, a founding member of the Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund (SSFFF). Back in the late 1980s, summer flounder abundance bottomed out, and overfishing was so bad that it was hard […]
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