NFC raises money the hard way - dollar at a time. We have no parent organization or large corporate sponsors…
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The deadline for uploading application materials to the EBTJV website is January 21, 2022….
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Coming at it from the perspective of a self-described “chemophobe,” NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard gives a different view of chemical reclamation…
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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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Win NFC’s favorite small stream fly rod. This 7-foot, 3-weight, 4-piece Studio Built 370 FastGlass fly rod from Epic is the perfect tool for wild native trout in backcountry streams…
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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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A salmon advocacy group in rural Maine is getting help from the federal government to make improvements to a fish hatchery and office building…
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Protect your coveted fly rod with a custom NFC rod case…
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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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For those of us who are lucky enough to have wild trout fisheries, it is important that we do our part to protect them. Fishing to stressed spawning trout or crushing their buried eggs are ways you can negatively impact a fishery. In this video, we teach you how to identify spawning trout and the spawning beds (redds) that they construct so you can give them the space they deserve…
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We have drawn a winner for the original NFC brook trout art…
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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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It was recently proposed that there are three new species of Salvelinus with microendemic distributions in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA. The three species of Salvelinus were hypothesized to be distinct from their congener Brook Trout S. fontinalis based on three meristic traits—pored lateral-line scales, vertebral counts, and number of basihyal teeth…
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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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NFC will be attending the 2022 Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival on January 15 through 16…
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NFC is excited to announce the formation of a new Georgia chapter…
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