Essential Fish Habitat of the Pacific Islands
Inshore

Essential Fish Habitat of the Pacific Islands

They buffer our shores from powerful waves, storms, and floods. They provide homes and shelter to numerous species of fish — including many that are an important part of subsistence, commercial, and recreational fishing — […]

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Fishing News - Salt

Alabama Sen. Shelby Takes Action to Address Gulf Red Snapper Fishery Mismanagement

Today’s Congressional Omnibus Appropriations bill includes several actions important to recreational fishing championed by Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).  The bill includes a number of provisions that attempt to address the […]

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Fishing News - Salt

The Future for Australian Anglers

The management of natural resources, whether on land or in water, is an extremely complicated endeavor. Scientists and policy makers have to take into consideration of the countless scientific, socioeconomic and even cultural factors that […]

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Fishing News - Salt

Proposed Artificial Reefs Off Delaware

In 2011, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council received a request from Delaware’s Fish and Wildlife Division to designate five artificial reef sites as Special Management Zones. These areas each encompass roughly one square nautical mile […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

National Marine Fisheries Service Makes Correction

After significant objection from the recreational fishing and boating community, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has taken steps to correct a key fisheries economics report that misleadingly indicated that the domestic commercial fishing industry […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Stevens Act Reauthorization Bill

As Congress continues exploring reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), the primary law governing U.S. marine fisheries management, the recreational fishing and boating community continues to seek substantive legislative changes […]

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Offshore

Huge Fish A Record For NZ Woman

Reported first by the New Zealand Herald: No woman in New Zealand has caught a bigger fish than the giant Pacific bluefin tuna that Aucklander Donna Pascoe reeled in this week after an epic four-hour […]

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Inshore

Red Snapper Reallocation Improving

During its recent meeting in Houston, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council approved moving ahead with an amendment to update the allocation of Gulf red snapper between the commercial and recreational sectors, a welcome […]