Angling, a type of fishing, is a popular pastime across the world, and is known to be 40,000 years old. Angling usually takes place in natural bodies of water, which may have populations of wild fish, or be stocked with cultured fish. Fish caught by angling may either be consumed, or may be immediately released....
To celebrate 30 years of successful U.S. Atlantic shark fisheries management, NOAA Fisheries is launching a campaign focused on providing fact-based shark information to the public. To kick-start this campaign, we are inviting kindergarten through eighth grade students to participate in our Atlantic Shark Art Contest to help raise awareness about Atlantic sharks. Students from...
When it comes to predictions of how climate change will impact fish populations, a new study has found that several species are ‘swimming upstream.’ “One widely expected result of global warming is that animal body size is going to go down,” says Olaf Jensen, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology....
Attention seafood lovers! Gabor Hetyey strongly recommends a new dish: fried catfish. Hetyey is no restaurant chef in his native Hungary. Rather, he belongs to a Budapest-based organization that helped breed a new variety of catfish after a decade of research. Best breed His non-profit entity coordinated an EU-funded project to show the promises of...
GAINESVILLE, Florida – Luxurious lodging has a new high standard with the Anglers Inn International Floating Suites in Crystal River, FL. The wide body 59-foot Gibson houseboats are open and reservations can be made by calling 800-GOTA FISH (800-468-2347). “This Crystal River, Florida, destination adds to our greatly popular Anglers Inn International locations,” said Freshwater...
The Recreational Fishing Alliance wants to be able to fight even harder for issues impacting the saltwater angling community, so we are looking for a few good anglers to lead our regional chapters. In the next 90 days, we will be interviewing candidates for Regional Directors. We’d like to have our members weigh in on...
Forestville, WI – The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is often misunderstood. A boater in peril sees an orange vessel or aircraft and knows help is inbound. A boater up to no-good sees that same orange and squirms. But there’s so much more to the USCG than saving lives and running down bad guys. Did you...
FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – To say studying sailfish is challenging is an understatement. These fish, often described as the “fastest fish in the world,” exhibit some remarkable traits as they make their way through the oceans in search of their next meal. And little had been known about how they did what they did when hunting...
The Fishing Wire will not publish on Monday, February 20, as we observe the federal holiday for Presidents’ Day. We will return to our regularly scheduled publishing cycle on February 21. – Toby Lapinski, Editor – The Fishing Wire
After 33 years of professional Fishing, legendary bass fishing angler Kevin VanDam announced his official retirement from fishing professionally on tour.