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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW: 1.  Write ASMFC and let them know you want menhaden management changed.  The ASMFC will hold a final vote on Amendment 3, and will set…

Recreational Fishing Industry Leaders Among Witnesses On August 24, 2017, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a field hearing titled “Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and…

BY JEFF ANGERS, GUEST COLUMNIST. FLORIDATODAY.COM READ THE FULL ARTICLE FROM FLORIDATODAY.COM.

The Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of the GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (GADNR)recently deployed 22 concrete culverts at the High Point Inshore Artificial Reef site in McIntosh County as a joint…

A great marine conservation victory has been put in jeopardy by a highly controversial plan to reintroduce indiscriminate longlines into areas that have been closed to the damaging gear for…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rebecca Louviere, Communications Director 225-382-3756 Washington, D.C. – August 1, 2017 – The recreational fishing and boating community today applauded the introduction of the RED SNAPPER Act,…

Recreational angling stakeholders gathered on Capitol Hill today for a Congressional Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Policy Luncheon along with coordinated congressional office visits. Event sponsors included American Sportfishing Association, Center for…

Click HERE to read the full letter to The Honorable John Barrasso, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and Senators Cardin, Boozman, Klobuchar, Capito, and Baldwin regarding S. 1514,…

Recreational Fishermen Laud Wicker, Nelson and Colleagues Today, the recreational fishing and boating community praised the Senate introduction of the Modern Fish Act by Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Bill Nelson…

Catch shares in marine fisheries is a concept unfamiliar to most people, and it is probably completely alien to most hunters and anglers in this country. It is a system…