While chain pickerel are relatively common, redfin pickerel are listed as Endangered at the state level in Maine…
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NFC Executive Bob Mallard will be presenting on New England’s Rare Sunapee and Blueback Trout at the Battenkill Fly Fishing Festival on Saturday, April 29…
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The lucky winner of this really awesome 580-4 FastGlass Studio Built fly rod from our friends at Epic is George from Connecticut…
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While we hold a tournament to remove 3,000 wild native lake trout from Moosehead each winter, we stock 5,000 nonnative landlocked salmon a few months later each spring…
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Biologists have a term for stocking over wild fish: Supplementary stocking. We do it try to appease anglers who want more from the resource than it can naturally provide…
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Pennsylvania NFC board member James Suleski talks about brook trout management in his home state with Fly Fisherman magazine…
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The screen scrape above comes from a West Virginia Department of Natural Resources webpage on brook trout…
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In most states, wild native brook trout in rivers and streams are afforded the least protection of any salmonid and many other game species, including stocked and nonnative fish…
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While we admittedly don’t get out newsletters as often as we’d like to, the Winter 2022 Newsletter just went out, albeit a bit delayed…
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This is not a criticism, but an observation, and an opportunity to improve their messaging, while helping wild native fish and aquatic ecosystems in general…
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NFC understand that in order to advance wild native fish conservation we must educate the masses as to why native fish are important and what is and is not native…
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If you are in the Edison, New Jersey, area this weekend, please stop in at The Fly Fishing Show and say hello to the NFC team…
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There are 76 documented native fish species in the French Broad River watershed with 27 listed as in need of conservation and seven are no longer found…
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NFC just attended the 2023 The Fly Fishing Show in Marlborough, Massachusetts…
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Win an 8-foot, 5-weight, 4-piece Studio Built FastGlass unidirectional S2 fiberglass fly rod from Epic out of New Zealand, makers of NFC’s favorite glass fly rods…
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NFC will be at the Marlborough, Massachusetts, The Fly Fishing Show from Friday 1/20 through Sunday 1/22…
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NFC’s Virginia chapter with support from our South Carolina chapter, are showing at Beau Beasly’s 2023 Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival…
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NFC Executive Bob Mallard writes about the importance of branding in regard to gaining support for wild native fish conservation. Take it from Smokey the Bear, it works…
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We need to stop doing that which has got us in trouble in the past, as nonnative fish are nonnative fish, no matter who puts them there or why…
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A recent Google Bing search in regard to “Maine 2023 fishing regulations” showed Maine NFC’s challenge to a recent flurry of negative changes. You can’t outrun the internet…
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