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, July 14, 2022

A "NO FISH DRY JULY" TO MINIMIZE RELEASE MORTALITY

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  This is one of those essays that shouldn’t have to be written. We all know that fish live in water.   We know that fish breathe the oxyg...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT BLACK SEA BASS

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  Of all the recreational fisheries managed by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and/or the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Co...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

FLORIDA SHARK TOURNAMENT TAKES A BIG STEP BACKWARDS

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  I grew up during the middle years of the 20 th Century, when what we might term a “conservation consciousness” was just beginning to emer...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE NMFS' MAKO SHARK CLOSURE

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  Last Friday, the National Marine Fisheries Service issued the long-awaited rule that prohibits the retention of all shortfin mako sharks c...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

NMFS GETS SERIOUS ABOUT CALIBRATING RED SNAPPER DATA--AND GETS FLAK FOR DOING ITS JOB

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  For people who write about fishery conservation issues, the recreational red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico is the gift that just k...
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