Bangor Daily News supports returning alewives to the St. Croix
In June, CLF attorney Sean Mahoney blogged about CLF’s lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to overturn a Maine law that has prevented the alewife, a forage fish...
View ArticleHerring Rally in Rivers but Still Suffer at Sea
On April 6, on Long Island, a video monitor in a special chute of water called a fish passage captured a brief but historic image: the silhouette of an alewife swimming through from the Carlls River to...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Tuesday, May 24
The Northeast Regional Planning Body will release the Draft Northeast Regional Ocean Plan via webinar tomorrow at noon. The RPB federal co-lead, Betsy Nicholson, will provide an overview of the draft...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Tuesday, October 25
NOAA Fisheries announced Jon Hare as the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s new Science and Research Director. Dr. Hare has worked within the agency for over 20 years and will officially start in...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, October 28
ASMFC’s menhaden board voted 16-2 to increase the menhaden catch limit for 2017 from 187,880 metric tons to 200,000 metric tons, just less than a 6.5 percent increase. Pennsylvania and the U.S. Fish...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, November 18
A Maine lobsterman was charged with fishing an excess of 156 lobster traps during a routine patrol last month. The traps belonged to another license holder. The lobsterman was also charged with...
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