ONE ANGLER'S VOYAGE

After spending over 50 years on and around the water, I have realized that without strong fisheries laws and effective conservation measures, the future of salt water fishing, and America's living marine resources, is dim. Yet conservation is given short shrift by national angling organizations and the angling press. I hope that this blog will incite, inform and inspire salt water fishermen to reclaim their traditional role as the leading advocates for the conservation of America's fisheries.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

NMFS CONFIRMS YOUNGER BLUEFIN TUNA SPAWNING IN THE SLOPE SEA

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  In 2016, a group of biologists, many but not all of whom were employed by the National Marine Fisheries Service, published a paper in the ...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

WHAT IS A FISH?

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  At the October 2025 meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board, that Board reject...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

WHAT DO STRIPED BASS FISHERMEN REALLY BELIEVE?

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  When the striped bass management debate heats up, and managers debate the need for more restrictive management measures, various special i...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

STRIPED BASS: CAMERAS (AND BAD FISH HANDLING) KILL

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  It gets kind of ridiculous, particularly in these days of a 28- to 31-inch slot size limit for coastal striped bass. Somebody catches a ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

THE TRIALS OF A FISHERIES MANAGER: AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT

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  I recently came across a piece on fisheries management—more specifically, Gulf of Maine cod management—that was written by a former Nation...
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