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, March 12, 2020

FISHERIES: MANAGING FOR THE MINORITY

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The most recent edition of Fisheries of the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service’s annual report to Congress, reveals that...
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Sunday, March 8, 2020

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT: ARE WE MAKING PROGRESS, OR FALLING BEHIND?

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As we sit on the cusp of a new fishing season, I can’t help but feel a little pessimism.   Inshore, striped bass and bluefish are ove...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

THE ADMNISTRATION SEEKS TO SHORTCHANGE FISHERIES; RESPONSIBLE LEGISLATORS DISAGREE

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I spent the last three days wandering around the nation’s capitol, visiting key legislators’ offices and asking them to reject the Preside...
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Sunday, March 1, 2020

DO ANGLERS CARE ABOUT BLUEFISH MANAGEMENT?

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As has been reported in these pages before, bluefish have become overfished, and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council is beginning ...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

COD: IT HAS COME DOWN TO THIS

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If you didn’t start fishing for cod fifty years ago, it’s probably hard to understand what codfishing was like back then. It was far f...
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