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Managers vote to reduce Atlantic menhaden quota by 10 percent
Washington, D.C. – October 19, 2020 – Today, the nation’s leading hunting, fishing, and habitat conservation organizations released a statement on the Thirty by Thirty Initiative (30 by 30 Initiative)…
New information indicates closure decision should be reversed Last week, Coastal Conservation Association and the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation signed a joint letter to the Department of Interior requesting a reversal…
Spud Woodward Chair Atlantic Menhaden Management Board Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 1050 North Highland Street, Suite 200 A-N Arlington, Virginia 22201 Dear Chairman Woodward and Members of the Atlantic…
Recommendations focus on marine conservation, public access and the U.S. economy.
Snapper count should be final nail in NOAA’s inept management of red snapper.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed without objection H.R. 5126, Direct Enhancement of Snapper Conservation and the Economy through Novel Devices Act of 2020 (DESCEND Act).
Just two years after approving a plan to allow the Gulf states to develop their own recreational data collection systems to better manage red snapper and certifying those state programs, NOAA Fisheries intends to force the states to calibrate their data back to the flawed federal data system that caused significant turmoil in the first place.
Recognizing that Texas coastal wetland loss impacts everyone, Ducks Unlimited has partnered with Coastal Conservation Association Texas (CCA Texas) and the Building Conservation Trust (BCT), the national habitat program of CCA, to support efforts by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to restore Dagger Island and protect important seagrass beds in Redfish Bay.
