“CCA Virginia members are committed to ensuring our state’s marine fisheries are healthy and sustainable, today and for future generations.”
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We write to ask for your support to broaden the ability to utilize the rigs-to-reef program, an issue of great importance to our organizations and the State of Louisiana.
Speckled trout are far too valuable to be caught and penned as bycatch. By taking proactive measures now to close the “stop net” loophole and clarify haul seine regulations, we can eliminate this troubling trend and avoid the possible spread of the practice to other fisheries in the future.
We are grateful for your bipartisan commitment to marine fisheries conservation through the science-based forage fish measures included in the Forage Fish Conservation Act.
Continued poor juvenile index surveys, lack of management action create crisis.
NOAA’s insistence on converting state red snapper data into cryptocurrency is stretching credibility beyond the limits.
There is more than one good reason to leave those big breeder size red drum in the water.
The recommendations highlight several priorities of the sporting-conservation community as they relate to the development of the Administration’s forthcoming American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas which will serve as a measure of conservation and restoration progress to date.
With the details not yet fully revealed, the jury remains out for the recreational-fishing community as to whether it may prove a great plus for the resource and the sport, or whether it may negatively impact both fishery productivity and result in unnecessary restrictions to public access.
CCA NC President Bert Owens said that he was tremendously grateful for the Court’s ruling but also disappointed by the State’s position in response to the lawsuit.
