The Veazie Salmon Club hosted a lobster dinner for 18 students from Scotland, Canada, and the United States so they could learn more about Atlantic salmon…
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Just in, custom State Heritage Fish signs for Maine’s state-owned public lands. Working with Bureau of Parks and Lands, Maine NFC designed a special sign that uses agency colors and includes an agency logo…
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Thanks to DIF&W Commissioner Judy Camuso, Maine’s brook trout will be getting new protections. The proposed new rule is already at stage 2 and will be implemented on January 1…
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In 2006, I put together a report on Maine’s burgeoning splake stocking with the help of other members of DDAS. Our goal was to show people how much the program had grown, where it was being done, and what the risks were…
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The biggest project NFC has taken on to date is progressing quite nicely. Big thanks to our volunteers and partners for stepping up for these unique and irreplaceable waters...
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More than 400 miles of Maine’s rivers and streams will receive increased legal protection under a bill (LD 1743) that will receive a public hearing today. Of particular significance, the bill includes critical portions of Maine’s largest river, the Penobscot, and 200 miles of trout streams flowing into Webb Lake by Tumbledown Mountain…
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Native Fish Coalition uses memberships to help fund its conservation work. While small in number, the distribution is impressive…
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Maine NFC Board Member and State Heritage Fish (SHF) sign volunteer Richard Joyce decided to commune with the brook trout while posting SHF signs at a few recently iced-out remote ponds…
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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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