nfc talks Native fish

In what can only be seen as an act of turf protection, and a lack of concern for at-risk species, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (DIFW) and Department of Marine Resources (DMR) opposed a bill that would have made the state-level listing of federally listed species mandatory…

No one can challenge that federally-listed species are in trouble at the state level. This is especially true in regard to Atlantic salmon which are only found in Maine…

While species are being lost to extinction, states like Maine are refusing to acknowledge or fully support the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA)…

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard looks at what states are doing in regard to supporting, or not, the federal ESA…

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard is on the cover of the May edition of Northwoods Sporting Journal, and his article on ME's rare wild native Arctic charr gets great placement in the very beginning of the magazine…

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard chimes in regarding the state of Maine’s ingoing refusal to list federally, and critically, endangered salmon as Endangered at the state level…

Sadly, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) is once again telling anglers that fisheries need harvest to be healthy…

NFC’s position in regard to hatcheries and stocking is well-documented. As we have said repeatedly, while you can stock yourself into trouble, you can rarely stock you way out of it…

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard talks about “Social Engineering” as a management tool in Northwoods Sporting Journal as part of a monthly native fish conservation column.

George Smith, Maine's most influential outdoor sporting figure, recently passed away. George was a friend of NFC, and a strong ally for native fish. He was a member of Maine NFC’s Advisory Council since soon after NFC was formed, and right up until he passed…

But they persist in Maine, home to 90 percent or more of the salters found in America today, as much by accident as design…

After decades of increasing protections for Maine’s unique salmonid resources, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) is now in a pattern of liberalizing regulations under the guise of “simplification” and “opportunity”…

While most Maine conservation non-profits are focused on habitat, the number one threat to our wild native fish is nonnative fish introductions, not habitat degradation…

When it comes to protecting our State Heritage Fish waters, Maine can and should do more. It’s time for some consistent and meaningful regulations on all our SHF waters, not just those that had protective regulations before the law…

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard just dropped the first of what will be a series of native fish conservation articles in the Bangor Daily News, one of Maine’s largest newspapers…