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 10, 2020

MID-ATLANTIC RECREATIONAL FISHERIES--IS STATUS QUO THE WAY TO GO?

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  The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council is meeting next week; as part of that meeting, on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 15, it wi...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

WHAT MIGHT BE NEXT FOR ALASKA'S BRISTOL BAY?

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  On November 25, the Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit application for the so-called Pebble Mine, which the Pebble Limited Partnershi...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

UNITED STATES, EUROPEAN UNION AGAIN FRUSTRATE MAKO CONSERVATION EFFORTS

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  One day last July, two friends, two Stony Brook University researchers, and I were drifting maybe 10 miles south of New York’s Fire Island...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

IS IT TIME FOR A "ONE-AND-DONE" RULE IN THE RECREATIONAL STRIPED BASS FISHERY?

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  A number of years ago, my wife, two of our friends and I found ourselves in a boat, with a guide, on Alaska’s Kenai River. We had hit th...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

SALT WATER FISHING: IS SPORTSMANSHIP DEAD?

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  Formal notions of sportsmanship and angling ethics arguably first came to saltwater fishing in 1898, when the Avalon Tuna Club was establi...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

COULD STATES HAVE A LEGAL OBLIGATION TO PROPERLY MANAGE MARINE FISHERIES?

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Regular readers of this blog know that I am a strong supporter of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act , because it ...
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