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, June 9, 2022

MID-ATLANTIC COUNCIL, ASMFC ADOPT MODIFIED "HARVEST CONTROL RULE"

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  Over the past year or so, I have been writing about something that the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and Atlantic States Marine ...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

COUNCIL STAFF, SCIENTISTS ADVISE AGAINST MID-ATLANTIC "HARVEST CONTROL RULE"

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For more than two years, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Interst...
Friday, June 3, 2022

SALTWATER HATCHERIES: DUBIOUS BENEFITS, UNRECOGNIZED RISKS

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  Saltwater fishermen have traditionally been at the mercy of the ocean, and of their own behavior. Unlike their freshwater counterparts, ...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

MARINE FISHERIES: THE ATTACK OF THE GADGETEERS

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  When he published A Sand County Almanac in 1949, pioneering ecologist Aldo Leopold observed, “Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known a...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

EPA ACTION PROVIDES HOPE FOR BRISTOL BAY WATERSHED

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  Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release announcing a revised Proposed Determination under the Clean Wat...
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