Now word comes from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife that Bald Mountain Pond is also infested with illegally introduced lake trout...
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They are encouraging state officials to reduce the number of brook trout caught on rivers and streams, from 12 to 6 fish daily…
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Once again the targeting of striped bass in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around Block Island is in the news...
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This has led to a number of cases where we now have too many fish in some waters...
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The Maine chapter of NFC had a conference call today with Maine Department of Marine Resources...
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NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard talks NFC. Thanks to the folks at...
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The Maine chapter of NFC was spotlighted in the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine membership newspaper for their work...
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As a longtime advocate for protection of our native brook trout, a fight that is ongoing, I was interested to come across a copy of an article in a 1975 edition of DIFW’s magazine…
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An endangered Arctic Charr in Maine is under threat from invasive Smelt in its home water, and resource managers are now apparently discussing relocating the entire population…
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The native brook trout population in the upper Savage River (USR) system is a unique and special resource and is one of only a few brook trout populations south of New England that remains well connected…
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Critically imperiled Arctic charr native to Maine’s Bald Mountain Pond are crashing hard and fast due to nonnative and highly invasive smelt...
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The Maine Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee has released its report on conservation lands owned by nonprofit organizations...
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After resisting requests that tributaries to our Heritage waters be protected, DIFW Fisheries Director Francis Brautigam told members of the legislature that his agency will do that...
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Lee Wulff with Curt Gowdy as they discover the waters of Minipi in search of wild northeast Brook Trout. Original film footage...
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Native Fish Coalition has just ordered the first 100 of what will be 1,000 or so signs for Maine's State Heritage Fish waters...
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Take, for example, the agency’s suggestion to require catch-and-release fishing for brook trout on more than 130 miles’ worth of streams…
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And in that stream are brook trout, I think to myself, as I drive through Lanesboro in the early morning to the DNR fisheries office. Or at least there should be...
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Having one’s rivers is important, like having family or a country. With rivers, though, you get to choose...
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