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Dead zone measures as big as Yellowstone
By nationalfisherman.com. NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 3,058 square miles. That’s almost two million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species — nearly as… SEE MORE
2023 Oregon Fishing: Record Crab Harvest Among Other Results
By Carli Stewart. Oregon’s fishing scene in 2023 was a bit of a mixed bag. While the state’s commercial fishing industry landed 301 million pounds of seafood, up from the previous year, the total revenue didn't quite hit the high notes of the past few years. The amount of crab… SEE MORE
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $9 Million for Partnerships to Recover North Atlantic Right Whales
By noaa.gov. Inflation Reduction Act enables new grants to conserve and recover endangered whales. Today, NOAA Fisheries announced over $9 million from Inflation Reduction Act funds to support strategic partnerships aimed at improving fishing gear and population monitoring that will help the recovery of North Atlantic right whales. These partnerships include collaborations… SEE MORE
Flounder Fishery Dispute Grows as August Meeting Approaches
By Carli Stewart. The flounder conflict continues into next week’s North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) meeting, which will be held in Raleigh from Aug. 21-23. The bone of contention is between the MFC and the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission (WRC) about this year's recreational flounder season. The only… SEE MORE
Lobster gauge increase delayed a second time
By Carli Stewart. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) just voted to delay the planned gauge change to increase the minimum allowable catch size in Lobster Management Area 1 until July 1, 2025. The Commission also approved Addendum 30, which clarifies that lobsters imported from Canada under the U.S.… SEE MORE
Rare sea creature washes ashore in Southern California
By apnews.com. A 7-foot (215-centimeter) sea creature that washed ashore in Southern California has been identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, a recently identified rare species thought to live in the Southern Hemisphere. The University of California, Santa Barbara, said an intern spotted the stranded fish last week at Sands Beach… SEE MORE
Northeast Summer Striper Tactics
By David A. Brown. Summer striper fishing is an adrenaline rush. Get out there with live baits and topwaters in low-light conditions. Like any sport, you can spend as much as you want gearing up for your next saltwater battle. However, northeast striper ace Blaine Anderson said the summer months… SEE MORE
The ocean is becoming too loud for oysters, research finds
By sciencedaily.com. Baby oysters rely on natural acoustic cues to settle in specific environments, but new research from the University of Adelaide reveals that noise from human activity is interfering with this critical process. "The ocean's natural sound is gradually hushing due to habitat loss, leading to a quieter natural… SEE MORE
Intro to Electric Outboards
By Joe Albanese. Advances in battery technology are making electric outboards a viable option for anglers. My first experience with electric-powered boats came on a six-grade trip to our nation’s capital. Though we were there to visit the Smithsonian, the trip involved a detour to Baltimore Harbor for reasons that… SEE MORE
Oregon Bound for Chinook and Coho
By David Conway. Catch the bite from the beaches to Buoy 10 and the Columbia River. Capt. Hugh Harris, of True North Outdoors in Portland, tells me that a chinook salmon can smell one drop of its ancestral stream in 50 gallons of water. In Harris’ home waters of the Columbia River,… SEE MORE
Anglers Are The Key to Climate-Resilient Fisheries
By Daniel Ritz. A new report written for anglers by anglers serves as a call to arms to galvanize the angling community to demand action as climate change disrupts fishing experiences coast-to-coast WASHINGTON – Today, the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) released a report written for anglers, by anglers,… SEE MORE
United Nations Endorses New “Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture”
By fisheries.noaa.gov. NOAA provided scientific expertise on the guidelines, which will develop global aquaculture best practices. More seafood is currently produced via farming, or aquaculture, than is harvested from the wild, according to a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report. As more people globally rely on seafood farming… SEE MORE
