The Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition has undertaken a volunteer project to post informational signs on Maine’s State Heritage Fish waters…
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Early springs and late falls are resulting in longer and deeper summers…
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After a year and a half of COVID caused suspension, the Maine chapter of NFC recently tabled at the Patagonia store in Freeport…
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This custom NFC logoed compact chestpack is ideal for small stream fishing for wild native trout…
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When it comes to moving fish around, we need to stop trying to play God…
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NFC offers several levels of lifetime memberships: Standard, Fly Rod, and Fly Rod and Reel Combo…
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To have what Maine has in regard to wild native fish, yet see stocking as your top priority as evident by the online messaging trend is disappointing…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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NFC has the youngest average age of any sporting or conservation group I have been associated with…
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NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard speaks up in regard to the growing nonnative, and highly invasive, smallmouth bass in Maine’s Rapid River…
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What does the Maine fishing law book have to do with wild native fish…
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Someone on the North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA) Facebook page posted about Maine’s wild native brook trout, State Heritage Fish waters, and the NFC/IFW/SAM informational sign initiative…
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The state of Maine and a handful of our rivers are the only places in the country that still have wild Atlantic salmon…
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ME NFC attended the first Maine Fly Guys and Maine Fly Co. Maine Fly Fishing Summer Showcase…
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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…
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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…
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While species are being lost to extinction, states like Maine are refusing to acknowledge or fully support the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA)…
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NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard looks at what states are doing in regard to supporting, or not, the federal ESA…
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