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.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

RETHINKING REALLOCATION

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No matter how healthy a fish stock may be, it is still a limited resource, and harvest must be controlled.  In most cases, such harvest con...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

CATCH DOESN'T COUNT UNLESS IT'S COUNTED

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The ocean—even that 197 mile-wide strip that defines the federal waters of the United States—is a pretty big place, and it’s impossible to ...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

MERE BIOMASS ISN'T ENOUGH

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By any conventional measure, the Atlantic Herring stock is in good shape.  Not only is the stock neither overfished nor experiencing overfi...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD"?

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Recently, a couple of local, fish-related news items caught my eye. The first was an announcement that June 22-28 marks “Sustainable Se...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

MAINTAINING OUR STANDARDS

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The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act , which governs all fishing in federal waters, is an extremely long and comple...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

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In what can only be called a surprising and somewhat strange announcement, the Bass Anglers’ Sportsman Society, better known as B.A.S.S.—th...
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