We formed a web team to work with the North Atlantic LCC and Ferguson Lynch Consulting to create a comprehensive web content management system tailored to the needs of all partners involved in Atlantic salmon and sea-run fish restoration in Maine…
Read MoreMaine NFC just finished three days at the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show in Augusta. Hosted by The Maine Sportsman and Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, this was NFC’s strongest so-called “hook-and-bullet” show to date, and second to only Common Ground Fair as a non fly fishing show…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC just posted roughly 20 Atlantic salmon informational signs on the lower Penobscot River and tributaries…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition testified at a public rule-making hearing in regard to the proposed ban on live bait, minnows, in the North Region of Maine…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC and our partners Downeast Salmon Federation and Atlantic Salmon Federation worked with Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) to help protect adult critically endangered Atlantic salmon from misidentification…
Read MorePublic hearings will be held in Millinocket and Hallowell on March 18 and 19 to discuss a proposal to ban the use of live fish as bait by rule not exception in the North Region...
Read MoreAll-star volunteer Kerry Hegarty of Jackman, Maine, just posted the 200th State Heritage Fish sign…
Read MoreThe new bill entitled, “An Act To Require Biodegradable Hooks and Lures for Freshwater Fishing,” has Maine anglers riled up. This bill, presented by Senator Davis of Piscataquis, lays out a plan to ban all non-biodegradable lures and hooks…
Read MoreScientists in Maine are using DNA to try to preserve the remaining populations of a fish that lives in 14 lakes and ponds in the state and nowhere else in the continental United States…
Read MoreGeorges River Trout Unlimited (GRTU) welcomes Native Fish Coalition, represented by Emily Bastian and Bob Mallard, for a presentation on New England's rare Arctic charr, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., in Rockport…
Read MoreWell maybe gloom of night as no one has tried it yet, but nothing else seems to keep Maine NFC volunteers from taking to the woods to protect out State Heritage Fish waters…
Read MoreNFC superstar volunteer Kerry Hegarty of Jackman doesn’t let a little snow get in his way of protecting Maine’s State Heritage Fish waters…
Read MoreAfter a couple of hours on the phone earlier this winter, here is what Fly Life magazine has to say about NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard, NFC, native fish, and the state of the state…
Read MoreWildlife artist Matt Patterson has generously donated two signed copies of his Blueback Trout print. We has them professionally framed and mounted and will be using them to help raise money for Arctic charr initiatives…
Read MoreEMILY BASTIAN
Growing up in Maine, I learned to fly fish over mostly wild native fish in remote and unspoiled places. I am blessed to have spent countless hours pursuing wild...
Read MoreBob Mallard, the national vice chair of the Native Trout Coalition, said he looks forward to continuing the organization’s work for native fish in Maine in 2019…
Read MoreBOB MALLARD
I spent twenty-five days in Montana and Wyoming this summer on assignment. While there I fly fished such fabled waters as the Beaverhead, Bighorn, Big Hole, Henry's Fork...
Read MoreME NFC and ME Audubon braved the cold and snow to post signs on a small State Heritage Fish pond in York County, Maine…
Read MoreAnswer: Creation of Maine’s Heritage Fish Waters – 500 lakes and ponds [actually 578 and counting] where we now protect our native brook trout…
Read MoreNFC co-founder, National Vice Chair, and Maine Board Member, Bob Mallard was recently interviewed on The Fisheries Podcast…
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