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Defying the Endangered Species Act at the state level is bad science, bad politics

Defying the Endangered Species Act at the state level is bad science, bad politics

By the time the federal government lists a species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, it has been deemed to be at risk of going extinct across all or a significant portion of its native range. State ESA laws are not intended to challenge federal listings, but allow for state-only listings, and up-listing (threatened to endangered), when the situation at the state level is worse than it is at the national level. Failing to list a federally-listed species at the state level flies in the face of the intent of both federal and state law…

NationalGuest UserApril 22, 2021Article LinkComment

Defying the Endangered Species Act at the State Level is Bad Science, Bad Politics...

Defying the Endangered Species Act at the State Level is Bad Science, Bad Politics...

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard chimes in regarding the state of Maine’s ingoing refusal to list federally, and critically, endangered salmon as Endangered at the state level…

National, MaineBob MallardApril 22, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard on Angler Harvest to Improve Size-Quality (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard on Angler Harvest to Improve Size-Quality (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

Sadly, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) is once again telling anglers that fisheries need harvest to be healthy…

National, MaineBob MallardApril 17, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

Shore-spawning brook trout in the Lily Bay area of Moosehead Lake

Shore-spawning brook trout in the Lily Bay area of Moosehead Lake

November 2020. Looking for shore-spawning brook trout in the Lily Bay area of Moosehead Lake with a Gladius Mini underwater ROV. This area is now closed to ice fishing and will serve as a refuge for late spawning and overwintering wild brook trout. These trout are mostly 3 - 6 lbs. We later implanted radio transmitters in 8 of the males…

NationalGuest UserApril 17, 2021Video LinkComment

VT NFC: IMPOSE LOWER LIMITS ON WILD NATIVE BROOK TROUT

VT NFC: IMPOSE LOWER LIMITS ON WILD NATIVE BROOK TROUT

Vermont NFC Chair Chris Owen sent an open letter to the media in regard to a current, and long-awaited, proposal by VT Fish & Wildlife to reduce their highest-in-native-range 12-fish daily limit on brook trout in rivers and streams…

National, VermontBob MallardApril 9, 2021Media SpotlightComment

Sea-run brook trout are Maine’s least appreciated gamefish

Sea-run brook trout are Maine’s least appreciated gamefish

Sea-run brook trout, or salters, are best described as diadromous, fish that move between freshwater and saltwater. They are sometimes incorrectly referred to as anadromous — saltwater fish that spawn in freshwater, but salters live and spawn in freshwater, moving into saltwater for food and thermal refuge…

NationalGuest UserApril 4, 2021Comment

NFC Fund-Raising Raffle (Epic 476-5 FastGlass Packlight Fly Rod)

NFC Fund-Raising Raffle (Epic 476-5 FastGlass Packlight Fly Rod)

Epic’s 7’6” 4-weight 5-piece Studio Built FastGlass Packlight fly rod is the ultimate backcountry stream fly rod…

National, Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, VermontBob MallardApril 2, 2021RafflesComment

NFC Talks Conservation Stocking (Bangor Daily News)

NFC Talks Conservation Stocking (Bangor Daily News)

NFC’s position in regard to hatcheries and stocking is well-documented. As we have said repeatedly, while you can stock yourself into trouble, you can rarely stock you way out of it…

National, MaineBob MallardMarch 31, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

Massachusetts Patagonia Recognizes NFC

Massachusetts Patagonia Recognizes NFC

Our friends at the Cambridge and Boston Massachusetts Patagonia stores have recognized NFC as their Environmental Non-Prof of the Month…

National, MassachusettsBob MallardMarch 26, 2021Media SpotlightComment

Social Engineering: [Still] A Dangerous Policy (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

Social Engineering: [Still] A Dangerous Policy (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard talks about “Social Engineering” as a management tool in Northwoods Sporting Journal as part of a monthly native fish conservation column.

National, MaineBob MallardMarch 5, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

Encouraging harvest as a fisheries management tool is bad science

Encouraging harvest as a fisheries management tool is bad science

As part of a guest fish conservation column in Bangor Daily News, Native Fish Coalition Executive Director Bob Mallard challenges Maine Department of Inland Fisheries ad Wildlife in regard t harvesting fish…

NationalBob MallardFebruary 23, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

NFC Brook Trout Nets

NFC Brook Trout Nets

NFC believes that a well-designed and properly used net is good for fish, especially small ones…

NationalBob MallardFebruary 22, 2021New SchwagComment

Daniel Webster’s Trout: Preserving and Restoring the Nation’s Fabled Sea-Run Brook Trout (MidCurrent)

Daniel Webster’s Trout: Preserving and Restoring the Nation’s Fabled Sea-Run Brook Trout (MidCurrent)

Bob Mallard reports in this, the sixth in our Conservation series, failures have occurred across the spectrum, with inconsistent and lackadaisical state management as well as regulatory confusion dictating outcomes…

National, Massachusetts, MaineBob MallardFebruary 17, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

We Have a Winner: Lacina Net (Ticket 009)

We Have a Winner: Lacina Net (Ticket 009)

On Sunday we drew a winner for the Lacina custom trout net. A beautiful one-of-a-kind piece with an inlaid NFC logo, the winner, ticket #009, is Andrew from North Pole, Alaska…

NationalBob MallardFebruary 17, 2021RafflesComment

Maine Loses an Outdoor Icon

Maine Loses an Outdoor Icon

George Smith, Maine's most influential outdoor sporting figure, recently passed away. George was a friend of NFC, and a strong ally for native fish. He was a member of Maine NFC’s Advisory Council since soon after NFC was formed, and right up until he passed…

National, MaineBob MallardFebruary 14, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

Sea-run brook trout are Maine’s least appreciated gamefish

Sea-run brook trout are Maine’s least appreciated gamefish

Sea-run brook trout, or salters, are best described as diadromous, fish that move between freshwater and saltwater. They are sometimes incorrectly referred to as anadromous — saltwater fish that spawn in freshwater, but salters live and spawn in freshwater, moving into saltwater for food and thermal refuge…

NationalGuest UserFebruary 14, 2021Article LinkComment

Native Fish Coalition Founds Alabama Chapter, Reaching Beyond Salmonids

Native Fish Coalition Founds Alabama Chapter, Reaching Beyond Salmonids

The Native Fish Coalition’s mission is to protect, preserve, and restore wild native fish populations through stewardship of the fish and their habitats. Founded in 2017, the group is largely made up of fly fishing and conservation enthusiasts from the Northeast US. They’ve dedicated their work to the memory of Dr. Robert J. Behnke, a prolific fisheries biologist, and hero to trout fishers everywhere…

NationalGuest UserFebruary 9, 2021Article LinkComment

NFC Chimes in on Maine's Sea-Run Brook Trout (Bangor Daily News)

NFC Chimes in on Maine's Sea-Run Brook Trout (Bangor Daily News)

But they persist in Maine, home to 90 percent or more of the salters found in America today, as much by accident as design…

National, MaineBob MallardFebruary 8, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

Is Maine Backsliding in Regard to Protecting Trout? (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

Is Maine Backsliding in Regard to Protecting Trout? (Northwoods Sporting Journal)

After decades of increasing protections for Maine’s unique salmonid resources, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) is now in a pattern of liberalizing regulations under the guise of “simplification” and “opportunity”…

National, MaineBob MallardFebruary 8, 2021Original NFC ContentComment

Wyden and Merkley Introduce Legislation to Protect 4,700 Miles of Oregon Rivers Nominated by Nearly 2,500 Oregonians

Wyden and Merkley Introduce Legislation to Protect 4,700 Miles of Oregon Rivers Nominated by Nearly 2,500 Oregonians

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today introduced the River Democracy Act to add nearly 4,700 miles of rivers and streams in Oregon to the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system – the largest Wild and Scenic Rivers effort in our nation's history…

Guest UserFebruary 7, 2021Comment