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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Most lakes, ponds, rivers, and many streams in New Hampshire are now stocked. Wild native brook trout are now found mostly in small headwater streams and wild trout management is all but stalled out…
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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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The brook trout became New Hampshire’s state fish in 1994. And there’s a group that doesn’t want to see it be forced out of the Granite State by non-natives like the rainbow or brown trout taking over its habitat…
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If you carefully examine Central Maine Power’s plan to build a transmission line to deliver Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts, you’ll discover the company is promising that in return for being allowed to ravage the western part of this state, the project will turn everybody in the Bay State into a nicer person…
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People love fishing for trout. They love it so much that we are willing to go to insane lengths to catch them. But what should we make of the fact that much of that experience of fishing for trout is just a facsimile of what it once was… and may actually be BAD for the very same fish, that we so love to catch?
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has extended an experimental regulation allowing a 10-fish daily possession limit for brook trout in 33 streams in the Upper Peninsula…
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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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When 20 years later you can remember every freshwater fish you caught [four] in the 10- to 15-pound class and recall their willingness to take you on with a fervor still unfamiliar, then get to hold them and be awed by beauty only matched by brook trout, you caught the Salmonidae arctic char [Salvelinus alpinus]…
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Steve Hurley (Mass Fish and Wildlife) made the following video in November, 2016.
Watch the video and then read Steve’s own words explaining what he observed below.
This interesting finding was the subject of a popular article in Fly Fisherman Magazine…
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Trout Unlimited, represented pro bono by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its recent decision to withdraw protections for the Bristol Bay region of Alaska…
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Historically, the Saco River was one of the premier trout fishing rivers in the Northeast. Today, the natural reproductive capability of native fish populations has been exceeded by angler demand, and stocking of hatchery reared brook, brown, and rainbow trout…
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The Hippo, a weekly free newspaper out of Manchester, NH, recently did a piece on New Hampshire’s state symbols. While they noted the brook trout as the State Freshwater Fish, they posted pictures of nonnative brown trout on the cover…
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It was recently announced that 11-year New Hampshire Fish and Game Executive Director Glenn Normandeau would be stepping down at the end of his term this March…
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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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While much of our emphasis is on habitat, nonnative fish are arguably the biggest threat to our native trout today. When you consider state-sponsored introductions — stocking and transfers, including trout; private stocking — often organization-sponsored; the in-migration of stocked fish from a secondary source; angler-initiated “bucket-biology,” and nonnative minnows resulting from the illegal, and legal, use of live fish as bait, it’s likely nothing even comes close…
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