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, June 11, 2023

THE UNREPRESENTED ANGLER

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  Saltwater angling has, of necessity, become a highly-regulated activity. When I was a boy—let’s say, during the 1960s—fishing along the ...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

SOME REAL WORK WILL BE NEEDED TO REBUILD STRIPED BASS

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  On June 5, 2023, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Plan Development Team and Atlantic Striped Bass T...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

STRIPED BASS: EMBRACING RELEASE MORTALITY

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  If you listen to current discussions about striped bass management, you’ll quickly learn that there is a real need to reduce overall fishi...
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Thursday, June 1, 2023

DIMINISHING RETURNS

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  I didn’t fish as much as I wanted to this spring.   The season started out well, with a run to a couple of offshore wrecks toward the end ...
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Sunday, May 28, 2023

CONSERVATION, EQUITY, AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

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  Self-serving arguments are common in many debates, and fisheries management proves no exception. We learned that the other night, at one...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

NON-COMPLIANCE AT THE ASMFC: IS IT TIME TO INCREASE THE COST?

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  Prior to 1984, state fisheries management on the East Coast was, at best, chaotic.   Every state was on its own, free to adopt—or refuse t...
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