Maine NFC just finished three days at the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show in Augusta. Hosted by The Maine Sportsman and Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, this was NFC’s strongest so-called “hook-and-bullet” show to date, and second to only Common Ground Fair as a non fly fishing show…
Read MoreIt should come as no surprise that Vermont Fish and Wildlife and the governors office backed off their proposal to close the Salisbury fish hatchery…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC just posted roughly 20 Atlantic salmon informational signs on the lower Penobscot River and tributaries…
Read MoreTony Demboski can’t think of a better breakfast than a few brook trout, rolled in flour, salt and pepper and fried alongside eggs and potatoes. “One of the finest-eating fishes there is,” said the 79-year-old resident of Quinnesec, a speck of a town outside of Iron Mountain in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula…
Read MoreThe brook trout once was king in New York, and, in fact, it was the only trout east of the Mississippi, but when the statewide trout season opens April 1, most every angler will be trying to catch a brown trout. Or a lot of them….
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition testified at a public rule-making hearing in regard to the proposed ban on live bait, minnows, in the North Region of Maine…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC and our partners Downeast Salmon Federation and Atlantic Salmon Federation worked with Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) to help protect adult critically endangered Atlantic salmon from misidentification…
Read MoreTo save money, Gov. Phil Scott wants to shut down a fish hatchery, and the organized angling community is in a tizzy…
Read MorePublic hearings will be held in Millinocket and Hallowell on March 18 and 19 to discuss a proposal to ban the use of live fish as bait by rule not exception in the North Region...
Read MoreEvery day, 50 million gallons of water full of arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from contaminated mining sites into waterways from Montana to California. The contaminated water poisons aquatic life and taints drinking water…
Read MoreAll-star volunteer Kerry Hegarty of Jackman, Maine, just posted the 200th State Heritage Fish sign…
Read MoreVT TU certainly endorses a heightened awareness of wild trout and habitat but we all know the ‘safety net’ and resources provided by state trout hatcheries… This hatchery seems to matter. Let’s keep it…
Read MorePurchase a 1-in-100 chance to win a $1,000 9-foot 5-weight 4-piece Winston Air fly rod with “Native Fish Coalition” inscription for just $20…
Read MoreR. L. Winston Rod Co. has generously donated a custom imprinted, “Native Fish Coalition”, 9’ 5-weight, 4-piece Winston Air fly rod with a retail value of $950 to NFC to help raise funds for our conservation initiatives…
Read MoreIf you have any plans of throwing a line into Idaho waters this year--specifically the South Fork of the Snake River--you could earn yourself some cash in the process…
Read MoreWe had a number of difficult options on the table to close our budget, and this is the best of those options. — Commissioner of Fish & Wildlife Louis Porter…
Read MoreThe new bill entitled, “An Act To Require Biodegradable Hooks and Lures for Freshwater Fishing,” has Maine anglers riled up. This bill, presented by Senator Davis of Piscataquis, lays out a plan to ban all non-biodegradable lures and hooks…
Read MoreScientists in Maine are using DNA to try to preserve the remaining populations of a fish that lives in 14 lakes and ponds in the state and nowhere else in the continental United States…
Read MoreYour $1,250 or $1,275 donation gets you a $900 fly rod, $30 NFC hat, and national NFC decal, while also helping to fund initiatives to protect and preserve our wild native fish…
Read MoreGeorges River Trout Unlimited (GRTU) welcomes Native Fish Coalition, represented by Emily Bastian and Bob Mallard, for a presentation on New England's rare Arctic charr, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., in Rockport…
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