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Partners In Conservation Launch ReleaSense Initiative Uncategorized

Partners In Conservation Launch ReleaSense Initiative

Collaborative effort to make best catch-and-release practices, research available to anglers Shimano, Texas A&M University-Corpus…

ccanationalJune 20, 2018

CCA Supports Legislative Effort To Eliminate Shark Finning Uncategorized

CCA Supports Legislative Effort To Eliminate Shark Finning

Coastal Conservation Association has joined forces with leaders in the marine science world to support…

ccanationalJune 7, 2018

Anglers Hold The Key To Better Management Uncategorized

Anglers Hold The Key To Better Management

Frustration with federal management of some fish species has sometimes led to a reluctance among…

ccanationalJune 4, 2018

ASMFC Warns Virginia On Menhaden Uncategorized

ASMFC Warns Virginia On Menhaden

State management body prepares to defend forage base conservation measures Coastal Conservation Association applauds the…

ccanationalMay 2, 2018

Recreational Fishing Organizations Oppose Longline Permit Uncategorized

Recreational Fishing Organizations Oppose Longline Permit

Industrial harvesters try to pry into conservation zone, again POSTED ON MARCH 07, 2018 Today,…

ccanationalMarch 7, 2018

Modern Fish Act Takes Major Step Toward Becoming Law Uncategorized

Modern Fish Act Takes Major Step Toward Becoming Law

Senate Commerce Committee Passes Landmark Legislation with Bipartisan Support The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,…

ccanationalFebruary 28, 2018

Urge Your Members Of Congress To Update America’s Primary Fishing Law Uncategorized

Urge Your Members Of Congress To Update America’s Primary Fishing Law

The MODERN FISH ACT (included in H.R. 200/S. 1520) will make critically IMPORTANT CHANGES to federal fishing regulations. The…

wpengineFebruary 27, 2018

Fishing For The Facts About The Modern Fish Act Uncategorized

Fishing For The Facts About The Modern Fish Act

BY CHRIS HORTON, FISHERIES PROGRAM DIRECTOR, CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN’S FOUNDATION Mark Twain once said, “Never let…

ccanationalFebruary 26, 2018

Longliners Target Billfish In Conservation Zone, Again Uncategorized

Longliners Target Billfish In Conservation Zone, Again

Controversial exempted fishing permit benefiting a single company back from the dead Conservationists won a…

ccanationalFebruary 26, 2018

Shimano And CCA Launch National Marine Science Scholarship Program Uncategorized

Shimano And CCA Launch National Marine Science Scholarship Program

In partnership with Harte Research Institute, program seeks to assist future leaders in conservation-based marine…

ccanationalFebruary 8, 2018

Time For ASMFC To Stand Firm For Menhaden Uncategorized

Time For ASMFC To Stand Firm For Menhaden

BY DAVID SIKORSKI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CCA MARYLAND As any good angler knows, Atlantic menhaden are…

ccanationalFebruary 5, 2018

CCA Comments On South Atlantic Cobia Uncategorized

CCA Comments On South Atlantic Cobia

Amendment 31 to the Coastal Migratory Pelagics Fishery Management Plan Thank you for the opportunity…

ccanationalJanuary 22, 2018