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LETTER: Bycatch Study Request for Key Forage Fisheries: Gulf Menhaden, Atlantic Menhaden, Atlantic Herring, and Atlantic Mackerel Uncategorized

LETTER: Bycatch Study Request for Key Forage Fisheries: Gulf Menhaden, Atlantic Menhaden, Atlantic Herring, and Atlantic Mackerel

We write to encourage your committees to adopt reconciliation language that will provide adequate funding…

Kevin HicksonAugust 18, 2021

The Fishery That Won’t Stay Saved Uncategorized

The Fishery That Won’t Stay Saved

What does the future hold for the red snapper fishery?

Kevin HicksonJuly 28, 2021

NEW: Gulf Council Sets Precedent with Recreational Data Correction Uncategorized

NEW: Gulf Council Sets Precedent with Recreational Data Correction

Decision on red grouper fishery attempts to fix history of flawed data. Read more here.

Kevin HicksonJune 28, 2021

Managers begin striped bass recovery on right note UncategorizedVirginia

Managers begin striped bass recovery on right note

ASMFC managers reject moving the goal posts for striped bass management. Striped bass managers took…

Kevin HicksonMay 11, 2021

Recreational Fishing and Boating Groups Back Forage Fish Bill to Promote Robust Sportfish Populations UncategorizedVirginia

Recreational Fishing and Boating Groups Back Forage Fish Bill to Promote Robust Sportfish Populations

The legislation would require that the role forage fish play in the marine ecosystem be…

Kevin HicksonApril 29, 2021

CONSERVATION IN ACTION: CCA Texas HI20 Reef Update Uncategorized

CONSERVATION IN ACTION: CCA Texas HI20 Reef Update

The Phase II expansion includes the addition of hundreds of tons of additional diverse materials,…

Kevin HicksonApril 27, 2021

Gulf Council Asks NOAA Fisheries to Delay Red Snapper Data Calibration Uncategorized

Gulf Council Asks NOAA Fisheries to Delay Red Snapper Data Calibration

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council elected to defer until January 2023 a controversial…

Kevin HicksonApril 19, 2021

Bureaucratic Glitch Threatens Snapper Season Uncategorized

Bureaucratic Glitch Threatens Snapper Season

By Kirk Patterson, Chairman CCA Alabama Government Relations Committee Spring has arrived. Just a few…

Kevin HicksonApril 12, 2021

Comments to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC): Amendment 7 – Atlantic Striped Bass Interstate Fishery Management Plan UncategorizedVirginia

Comments to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC): Amendment 7 – Atlantic Striped Bass Interstate Fishery Management Plan

On behalf of America’s 7.5 million striped bass anglers and the sportfishing industry, we appreciate…

Kevin HicksonApril 9, 2021

CCA Louisiana and Conservation Partners to begin construction on “Green Monster Reef” in Plaquemines Parish Uncategorized

CCA Louisiana and Conservation Partners to begin construction on “Green Monster Reef” in Plaquemines Parish

Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana’s REEF Louisiana Program will begin construction this week on a…

Kevin HicksonApril 7, 2021

CCA Texas Delivers Vital Funding to Texas Hatcheries Uncategorized

CCA Texas Delivers Vital Funding to Texas Hatcheries

Sea Center Texas Hatchery In the wake of a coastal freeze, CCA Texas contributes $152,000…

Kevin HicksonApril 7, 2021

Fifty-Foot Tugboat Ready to Become South Carolina’s Latest Reef Uncategorized

Fifty-Foot Tugboat Ready to Become South Carolina’s Latest Reef

The marine ecosystem off South Carolina is set to get another boost this week with…

Kevin HicksonMarch 9, 2021