Maine’s newest critical wild native brook trout public land, Cold Stream Forest near Jackman and West Forks, just got custom State Heritage Fish signs (SHF)…
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Covering more than 580 waters, Maine’s State Heritage Fish (SHF) law is the largest and most important wild native brook trout initiative in the nation…
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DIFW fisheries biologists think that catch and release is hurting our fish. Deirdre Fleming’s story about this, in the Maine Sunday Telegram on August 11, was very provocative…
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Big shout-out to Cameron at The Fiberglass Manifesto for publishing NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard’s piece on native fish, small streams and fiberglass fly rods…
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The Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition Chair and emerging native fish conservation superstar Emily Bastian talks about native fish and NFC in the current edition of Fly Fish America magazine…
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Brook trout have been in the area for thousands of years, but warmer, cloudier waterways and invading fish have caused the number of brook trout in New Jersey to drop…
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The Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition is working on custom State Heritage Fish signs and backboards for posting on state-owned land managed by Bureau of Parks and Lands…
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For decades Green Lake in Dedham, Maine, was classified as a native Arctic charr water. At 3,132 acres, it was the largest of the 12 native charr waters left in the contiguous United States, and twice as large as the next biggest…
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The Veazie Salmon Club hosted a lobster dinner for 18 students from Scotland, Canada, and the United States so they could learn more about Atlantic salmon…
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For more than a decade, Bob Mallard has established himself as one of the state’s most determined cold-water fisheries advocates, working on conservation projects and legislation that have ruffled feathers in Augusta but paid dividends in the end…
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Just in, custom State Heritage Fish signs for Maine’s state-owned public lands. Working with Bureau of Parks and Lands, Maine NFC designed a special sign that uses agency colors and includes an agency logo…
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NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard talks about nonnative trout, how they got here, and who’s to blame…
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Before moving to Maine nearly twenty years ago, I spent just over twenty years straddling the border of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. My time was split between an apartment in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and my first house in neighboring Brookline, New Hampshire — both of which were home to the Nissitissit River…
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In 1955 a mutant female rainbow deficient in pigmentation turned up in one of the Wildlife Division’s hatcheries -- to the delight of West Virginia fish managers who, one can easily imagine, rubbed their hands together and cackled, “It’s aliiiiive! It’s aliiiiive!”…
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Every trout fisherman I know has his woods, having one’s woods is important–like having family or a country. Mine are the Maine woods. And the excuse I use to get into them–brook trout–is as beautiful an excuse as anyone could find….
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Every trout fisherman I know has his woods, having one’s woods is important–like having family or a country. Mine are the Maine woods. And the excuse I use to get into them–brook trout–is as beautiful an excuse as anyone could find…
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Thanks to DIF&W Commissioner Judy Camuso, Maine’s brook trout will be getting new protections. The proposed new rule is already at stage 2 and will be implemented on January 1…
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In 2006, I put together a report on Maine’s burgeoning splake stocking with the help of other members of DDAS. Our goal was to show people how much the program had grown, where it was being done, and what the risks were…
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The biggest project NFC has taken on to date is progressing quite nicely. Big thanks to our volunteers and partners for stepping up for these unique and irreplaceable waters...
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Land and water conservation projects nationwide would receive a big boost from a bipartisan bill introduced this week to guarantee full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), one of the nation’s most important conservation programs…
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