Photo: Migratory salmon need many healthy habitats for survival I just completed a 420 mile round trip to Southern Oregon. Having been born and raised in Northwest Oregon, as well as spending the vast majority of my professional life in this region, it’s easy to forget how diversified the greatest state in the union is. […]
To truly understand the question, “Is it time to open the harvest of river herring?,” one must understand the subculture of New England river herring. The Back River was “my” herring run located in the Jackson Square portion of Weymouth, MA. Our harvest days were Wednesdays & Saturdays. On these days, Jackson Square would come […]
Top image: portrait of John Jacob Astor, via Wikipedia I had the good fortune to get a little culture in my life this week. One benefit of moving from a tiny town in coastal Oregon to “the Big City” was the diversity of opportunities that exist within these crowded city walls, such as the opportunity […]
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,” […]
“Everyone who catches a fish is happy, and this brings me joy,” said Capt. Dave Monti. Here Walt Galloway (with tautog), David Hansen (black sea bass) and Gerald Pesch (cod) caught three species when fishing off Newport, R.I., thanks in part to the Magnuson-Stevens Act. During the holiday season I often reflect and write about […]
Photo: Steve Brustein of Portland, ME caught this cod off Newport while fishing for tautog last November November is a great recreational fishing month in the Northeast. Species to target include tautog, black sea bass and, for the past two years, recreational cod fishing has been very good off Rhode Island. Cod fishing was so […]
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