While googling some river flow data, I noticed that the picture associated with Maine’s Magalloway River…
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The Maine NFC led State Heritage Fish (SHF) sign initiative has reached another milestone. This time it’s the 400th SHF sign posted…
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Jerry Derosier is what NFC calls an all-star wild native fish volunteer…
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Having one’s rivers is important, like having family or a country. With rivers, though, you get to choose. I prefer mine rippling with wild brook trout, which is to say clean and secluded. And because my time and place coincide with an irruption of my species…
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In 2005, Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM) went to the Maine…
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Thirty-five years ago, I saw a fish over 30-inches, leap from the brown water and attempt to clear a small falls on the Seboeis River, only to slide back into the white foam below…
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In the May/June 2020 edition, NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard provides a brief overview and status update in regard to Maine’s rare Arctic charr, formerly known as blueback trout…
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NFC is excited to announce that our Pennsylvania chapter is now live…
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To be clear, most of what was presented in the article is accurate. And where subjective; it is as valid, or not, as the opposing position…
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Having said they “move in a different direction,” the hope was that the commission was looking to modernize the department, make it more representative of, and responsive to, the various user groups, and otherwise move fish and wildlife management in New Hampshire in a positive direction…
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NFC certainly can’t argue with some of what is said in the article, as it mimics, almost verbatim, what we have said for several years now. Doing so would be disingenuous and hypocritical, and we would surely, and rightfully so, be called on it…
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In the roughly 25 months since the project started, we have posted one or more State Heritage Fish signs on 250 lakes and ponds in Maine…
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(July 17, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representatives of thousands of sportsmen and women across the country filed a friend of the court brief today in support of a lawsuit to overturn the Waters of the United States rule (2020 WOTUS rule)…
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Get outside, get off the grid, stay away from the crowds, learn some new remote and undeveloped wild native trout water, and help protect this irreplaceable wild native trout resource…
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Epic fiberglass fly rods are a favorite of NFC members and supporters. Nothing excels on the small wild native trout streams we love like fiberglass, and no one does fiberglass better than Epic…
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Will wild native Atlantic salmon go the way of the passenger pigeon, or will we be able to bring them back from the brink of extinction as we did the bald eagle, our National Bird, or bison, our National Mammal? As the lights dim on the “King of Fish,” we must ask ourselves, are we doing everything we can to prevent the loss of the nation’s iconic Atlantic salmon? The answer, sadly, is no….
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NFC is pleased to announce the addition of Rob Giannino to our National and Massachusetts Advisory Councils…
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As I stared at the brown water crashing over the rocks, a fish I estimated to be 30-inches or more, leaped from the water and attempted to clear the falls, only to slide back into the white foam below…
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Ten conservation groups and a number of scientists, advocates, and authors, have petitioned Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) Commissioner Judy Camuso to review Atlantic salmon to determine if they warrant listing as "Endangered" under Maine's Endangered Species Act…
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This fits well, and in a several ways, with a recent piece I wrote about “data” in MidCurrent. First is the lack of clear, concise, and meaningful goals…
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