Cold-water immersion is the cause of many boating-related fatalities. The danger increases as water temperature decreases below normal body temperature (98.6° F). If you plan to be on the water this winter, Do… Do make sure everyone is wearing a life jacket. Even experienced swimmers will experience shock within one minute in the frigid water...
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Coastal Pines Technical College Foundation today announced a new scholarship and endowment program to invest in the next generation of Georgia’s commercial fishermen. The “Georgia Commercial Fishing Sustainability and Resilience Endowment “and the “Georgia Commercial Fishing Scholarship,” funded by DNR’s Coastal Resources Division (CRD), will aid Coastal...
According to the Associated Press, the Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following a deadly blaze that killed 34 people on a scuba diving boat off the California coast more than two years ago, including installation of fire detection and suppression equipment. The Labor Day 2019 fire aboard the Conception off Santa Barbara marked...
In 2008, a team of researchers boarded an expedition vessel and set sail for the anchovy-rich waters off the coast of Peru. They were searching for a place to extract a sediment sample that would unearth secrets about the ocean from 130,000 years ago, a time when the planet was experiencing its last interglacial period....
By John Heil, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “They will recolonize, if we pave the way for them,” said Damon Goodman, former biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Arcata office who is now a regional director in Northern California for CalTrout. If this sounds similar to the Field of Dreams famous quote: “if...
Louisville, KY – Crappie USA begins its 26th year of providing competitive fishing to crappie anglers in 2022. They are kicking off the year on the St. Johns River with their first Winter Classic Championship. Anglers will travel from across the country to compete out of Deland, FL. Anglers fishing the event on January 14-15,...
SAN ANTONIO, TX – With the calendar now turning over to 2022, the race for Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia is entering the second half of the 2021-2022 chase to be the number one ranked team in all of collegiate bass fishing. Throughout the course of this week, the...
Francis Joseph Oelerich, Jr. passed away in Alabama on December 28, 2021. The son of Francis Joseph, Sr. and Helen Spillane Oelerich, he was born in 1936 in Chicago. He attended Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity school in Winnetka and graduated from New Trier High School in 1954. Told by Notre Dame football coach Terry...
A new study examines how catch share programs can make fishing safer by providing flexibility in when fishermen can fish. Certain “risky” behaviors make fishing one of the most dangerous lines of work. Previous research found that these behaviors dropped sharply following the adoption of catch share management in the West Coast fixed gear sablefish...
Researchers from Simon Fraser University and NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center found retreating glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia could open up new stream habitats for Pacific salmon. The findings were published today in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The researchers modeled glacier retreat under different climate change scenarios, essentially “peeling back the ice” from...