Superstar NFC volunteer Kerry Hegarty just posted the first State Heritage Fish sign of spring 2020. Driving 74 miles round trip and spending 4 hours afield…
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DIFW Commissioner Judy Camuso is opening fishing in our brooks and streams early, and will allow anyone to fish without a license.
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The following quotes come from a recent post made on Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife website called, 30 Ways to help conserve Maine’s fisheries…
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Great news! A legislative committee has voted unanimously for a resolve to void CMP’s public lands lease for their destructive corridor through western Maine. The resolve also notes that Maine’s constitution requires approval by two-thirds of the legislature for public lands to be substantially altered…
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The following comes from an email we received from NFC all-star volunteer Jerry Derosier. At 26 waters and counting, Jerry has posted more State Heritage Fish waters than almost anyone else associated with the project. I suspect by spring he will be our top poster…
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Our Winter 2020 newsletter is now out. For those who do not get it, click here to read…
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This led to an email which in turn led to Avid replacing the unit with a new reader with additional functionality gratis…
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We are only 4 tickets away from drawing a winner for a NFC inscribed Epic 370 FastGlass, 7ft 3wt 4pc, fiberglass fly rod valued at $825…
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While some people are getting a slightly different result, this is what many people appear to be seeing when they Google “Maine Native Fish”, “New Hampshire Native Fish”, and “Vermont Native Fish”…
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“It would have negative impacts on Maine’s brook trout, cause significant habitat fragmentation in the north woods, and it would also have dramatic visual and recreational impacts in the region”…
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While the claim that the proposed power line would destroy “pristine wilderness” may be exaggerated, the potential impact on Maine’s natural resources is not…
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Any blockage on the Denny's River that doesn't have passage needs to be addressed for salmon to both recover and thrive like they did…
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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…
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IFW’s recent assertion that catch and-release is hurting Maine’s fisheries was challenged on many fronts…
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Maine 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…
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The 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...
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Thanks 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…
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Floods Pond in Maine is an outdoor laboratory where rare wild native Arctic charr can be studied in a natural setting…
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NFC 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…
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In 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…
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