nfc talks Native fish

When it comes to fish conservation, we have never really got it right. Most of what we have is gamefish centric, and most of that salmonid centric. Warmwater gamefish conservation gets very little attention, and saltwater fish conservation runs hot and cold depending on where you live. As for non-game species, they get no love at all...

While Maine’s Arctic charr are getting a lot of positive press these days, all is not well, and what you don’t know, as few are writing about it, could kill them…

If you have ever fished a remote pond in the backcountry of Maine, it’s very likely that you saw one or more abandoned and in disrepair boats along the shore…

NFC has the youngest average age of any sporting or conservation group I have been associated with…

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard speaks up in regard to the growing nonnative, and highly invasive, smallmouth bass in Maine’s Rapid River…

What does the Maine fishing law book have to do with wild 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…