Native Fish Coalition National Vice Chair and Maine Board member Bob Mallard talks about the native charr of Maine’s Baxter State Park…
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Spring is here, the snow is melting, ponds are losing their ice, and dirt roads are becoming passable. This means that it’s time to get back into the field, catch some fish, and while you are at it, post some signs to help protect what we all hold near and dear — wild native brook trout...
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Please welcome our newest Business Partner, Fins & Furs Adventures, from my home town Skowhegan, Maine…
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Please welcome our newest Business Partner, Rangeley Region Sport Shop, in historic Rangeley, Maine. As anyone who knows brook trout knows, Rangeley, Maine, is the brook trout capital of the United States — nothing is even close…
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As anyone who knows me can attest to, I am not one to throw compliments around lightly. I am also not one to mince words or pull any punches...
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It's official, Native Fish Coalition National Vice Chair and Maine Board member Bob Mallard’s upcoming brook trout book is now in the proofing stage and heading to the printer in May for a summer release...
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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…
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Maine 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…
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The Maine chapter of NFC just posted roughly 20 Atlantic salmon informational signs on the lower Penobscot River and tributaries…
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The 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…
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The 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…
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Public 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...
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All-star volunteer Kerry Hegarty of Jackman, Maine, just posted the 200th State Heritage Fish sign…
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The 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…
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Scientists 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…
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Georges 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…
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Well 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…
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NFC superstar volunteer Kerry Hegarty of Jackman doesn’t let a little snow get in his way of protecting Maine’s State Heritage Fish waters…
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After 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…
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Wildlife 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…
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