Thanks to the efforts of artist Karen Talbot and writer and fisheries advocate Ret Talbot, wild native salmonid waters in the Deboullie Public Reserved Lands in northern Maine got their first custom State Heritage Fish and Arctic Charr signs…
Read MoreIFW’s recent assertion that catch and-release is hurting Maine’s fisheries was challenged on many fronts…
Read MoreMaine NFC Chair Emily Bastian and National Vice Chair Bob Mallard drove to Princeton, Maine, on the Canadian Border to deliver custom State Heritage Fish signs to the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township…
Read MoreThe article below by John Litvaitis appeared in Northern Woodlands magazine. It features a picture of Maine NFC Chair Emily Bastian along with two others that while not attributed to NFC came from NFC. It’s great to see this rare and unique fish finally getting the attention it deserves...
Read MoreThanks to the generosity of the folks at Swift Fly Fishing out of New Zealand, NFC is raffling off a Studio Built 370 FastGlass II fly rod. With a retail value of $825, this 7-foot 3-weight 4-piece S2 fiberglass rod is arguably the finest and most versatile small stream rod on the market today…
Read MoreFloods Pond in Maine is an outdoor laboratory where rare wild native Arctic charr can be studied in a natural setting…
Read MoreNFC National Vice Chair and Maine Board member Bob Mallard along with volunteer Jeff Moore made a trip to the northern end of Franklin County in Maine to post the first tribe-specific State Heritage Fish signs on tribal-owned land…
Read MoreIn just 16 months, Maine NFC and volunteers have posted State Heritage Fish signs on 200 so-designated waters. The 200th water, aptly named Lucky Pond in Piscataquis County, was posted on Thursday , September 26th…
Read MoreMaine NFC Chair and National Secretary/Treasurer Emily Bastian talks about our State Heritage Fish sign project with The Maine Sportsman magazine…
Read MoreAt a recent public hearing in regard to a proposed prohibition on the use of live fish as bait in Maine’s North Region, retired Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) biologist Paul Johnson defended the use of live fish as bait…
Read MoreNFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard chimed in on the Bangor Daily News in regard to a recent story where Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife was quoted as saying that catch-and-release was harming Maine’s fisheries…
Read MoreLast week the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s advisory council approved a rule that sounds ominous, but will actually change very little for the state’s anglers.
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC recently worked with Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands to post 11 custom State Heritage Fish signs on 7 waters in the new Cold Stream Forest public land…
Read MoreMaine’s newest critical wild native brook trout public land, Cold Stream Forest near Jackman and West Forks, just got custom State Heritage Fish signs (SHF)…
Read MoreCovering more than 580 waters, Maine’s State Heritage Fish (SHF) law is the largest and most important wild native brook trout initiative in the nation…
Read MoreDIFW fisheries biologists think that catch and release is hurting our fish. Deirdre Fleming’s story about this, in the Maine Sunday Telegram on August 11, was very provocative…
Read MoreBig shout-out to Cameron at The Fiberglass Manifesto for publishing NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard’s piece on native fish, small streams and fiberglass fly rods…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition Chair and emerging native fish conservation superstar Emily Bastian talks about native fish and NFC in the current edition of Fly Fish America magazine…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition is working on custom State Heritage Fish signs and backboards for posting on state-owned land managed by Bureau of Parks and Lands…
Read MoreFor decades Green Lake in Dedham, Maine, was classified as a native Arctic charr water. At 3,132 acres, it was the largest of the 12 native charr waters left in the contiguous United States, and twice as large as the next biggest…
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