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Become A Citizen Scientist for Striped Bass Conservation

Help striped bass conservation and win great prizes! The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is seeking volunteer anglers to record data while fishing for striped bass this year. Your data will be used in important striped bass mortality research, and you’ll be entered in a weekly raffle drawings to win Shimano rod and reel combos...

Federal Researchers Say Two Widely Used Pesticides Harm Many Endangered Fish Species
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Federal Researchers Say Two Widely Used Pesticides Harm Many Endangered Fish Species

Federal researchers have found that two widely used pesticides significantly harms endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead species. The opinion could lead to a change in where and how the pesticides can be used. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a draft of its biological opinion Thursday concluding that continued use of insect-killing chemicals containing carbaryl or methomyl...

Federal Regulator Acknowledges Danger To Wildlife Caused By Offshore Wind Farms
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Federal Regulator Acknowledges Danger To Wildlife Caused By Offshore Wind Farms

The federally-chartered regulator responsible for managing fisheries in the oceans of New England acknowledged that offshore wind farms could pose a threat to the local marine wildlife, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Thomas Nies, executive director of the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC), noted the “concerning implications” of...

Costa Rican Legislator Introduces Law to Protect Sailfish
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Costa Rican Legislator Introduces Law to Protect Sailfish

With the goal of stimulating the economy in the coastal areas of the nation through the protection of a marine species for tourism promotion, a new law protecting sailfish has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly. Costa Rican Deputy Eli Feinzaig presented Expedient 23,463, “Law to promote the economic development of the coasts: Declaration of...

Biden To Create New Marine Sanctuary In Pacific
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Biden To Create New Marine Sanctuary In Pacific

President Joe Biden announced that he would expeditiously expand and increase environmental protections for a group of remote atolls and islands in the Central Pacific and the nearly 777,000 square miles of waters around them. He’s directing the commerce secretary to consider initiating a new national marine sanctuary designation within the next 30 days around...

Lawsuit Accuses Alaska of Unconstitutionally Mismanaging Salmon Fisheries
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Lawsuit Accuses Alaska of Unconstitutionally Mismanaging Salmon Fisheries

An attorney who successfully overturned a billion-dollar Alaska oil tax credit program is now targeting the state’s management of its salmon fisheries. On Monday in Bethel, attorney Joe Geldhof argued that the state is managing those fisheries so poorly that it is violating the Alaska Constitution. Article VIII, Section 4 of the constitution says that fisheries should...

Researchers are Looking Into Risk Factors for Whales Who Get Caught Up in Fishing Gear
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Researchers are Looking Into Risk Factors for Whales Who Get Caught Up in Fishing Gear

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Researchers with Oregon State University are trying to better protect whales from getting entangled in fishing gear. They have discovered some areas of the ocean are more at risk for whales to get caught up in that gear, and the research has been forcing some changes for some fisherman. The research is focused on...

Important Changes to ASMFC 2023 Spring Meeting Details
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Important Changes to ASMFC 2023 Spring Meeting Details

Please note that changes have been made to Monday’s schedule. The American Eel Management Board will NOT be meeting and the start time for Monday is now 12:45 PM. The attached notice and agenda have been revised accordingly. Please find below the preliminary agenda and public comment guidelines for the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s...

Steelhead fishery to open on Skagit, Sauk rivers under updated management plan
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Steelhead fishery to open on Skagit, Sauk rivers under updated management plan

Fisheries managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Skagit co-managing tribes can now begin fisheries directed at steelhead on the Skagit and Sauk rivers under an updated plan approved by federal agencies this month. Biologists have forecasted that 5,211 wild steelhead will return to the Skagit River in 2023, enough to...