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 15, 2025

DEFENDING POOR DECISIONS: GULF OF MEXICO RED SNAPPER

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  Recreational red snapper management in the Gulf of Mexico may be one of the clearest examples of what happens when values conflict, and th...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

OCEAN COOLING COULD IMPACT NORTHEASTERN FISHERIES

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  In recent years, the Gulf of Maine has been one of the world’s most rapidly warming ocean regions.   But, for a while at least, that may c...
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

THE FISHING TACKLE INDUSTRY VERSUS FISHERIES MANAGEMENT--PART II: CURRENT EVENTS

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  In 2017, in connection with further efforts to weaken Magnuson-Stevens’ conservation and management provisions, one of the top officers of...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

THE FISHING TACKLE INDUSTRY VERSUS FISHERIES MANAGEMENT--PART I: IN THE BEGINNING

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  Ever since I began writing this blog over a decade ago, I have occasionally come back to the topic of how the fishing tackle industry atte...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

STRIPED BASS MANAGEMENT--THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS

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  Striped bass management, and what it ought to look like, has been the subject of a years-long debate that, in 2022, saw the Atlantic State...
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