This post is the first in a two-part series about Charles’s personal journey with U.S. fisheries management and the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Read Part Two here. As a boy growing up in the southwest corner of the New England coast, I had no way of knowing that Congress would someday pass the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and […]
Photo: Bob Rees with Chris Sessions on the Wilson River near Tillamook, OR. (Photo by Buzz Ramsey) It isn’t every day that you get a call from the legendary Buzz Ramsey to go fishing one of “his” two rivers, in which he made a name for himself. There aren’t many anglers in the Pacific Northwest […]
The second stop on the Young Fishermen’s Educational Tour after Boston was in our nation’s Capitol. The goal of the D.C. visit was for young fishermen to learn more about federal fisheries policy, including the Magnuson Stevens Act (our nation’s primary federal fisheries law that is up for reauthorization), and also to gain experience in […]
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 […]
The sun shines on Day 4 of Slow Fish New Orleans at Docville Farm in Violet, La, where attendees were treated to tasty seafood (at left) and a boucherie with slow cooked, fire pit pork and lamb (at right) from the local Slow Meat chapter. It’s a surreal, if a bit funny experience to eat […]
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 […]
If you were traveling with eleven young fishermen from more than eight different communities of Alaska, and each had diverse backgrounds in fishing and family, what would you expect to get from a trip like this? We’re young, many of us already a generational fisherman, choosing to live just like our mothers and fathers and […]
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 […]
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