NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard speaks up in regard to the growing nonnative, and highly invasive, smallmouth bass in Maine’s Rapid River…
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What does the Maine fishing law book have to do with wild native fish…
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The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and partners will soon place new signs near eight ponds where the use of baitfish is prohibited. The signs will remind anglers that use of baitfish poses a threat to the wild native brook trout that have existed there for thousands of years…
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Someone on the North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA) Facebook page posted about Maine’s wild native brook trout, State Heritage Fish waters, and the NFC/IFW/SAM informational sign initiative…
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The state of Maine and a handful of our rivers are the only places in the country that still have wild Atlantic salmon…
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NFC Executive Director Bob Mallard discusses why catch-and-release still makes sense regardless of the increasing number of people saying it doesn’t…
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Nice NFC logo drop and shout-out on the Sage blog.…
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NFC National Advisory Council member Chase Bartee and his wife Aimee have just released the second episode of a new video series called, For Wild's Sake: The Rare Trout Chronicles…
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Chase Bartee and his wife Aimee have just released the first episode of a new video series called, For Wild's Sake: The Rare Trout Chronicles…
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ME NFC attended the first Maine Fly Guys and Maine Fly Co. Maine Fly Fishing Summer Showcase…
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Members of our Pennsylvania chapter represented NFC at a series of minor league baseball games in Altoona, PA, where the Altoona Curve temporarily rebranded themselves as the Altoona Brookies to help raise awareness for PA’s state fish…
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Over the years so much Federal and private money has been spent in the U.S. trying to recover our Atlantic salmon, which is an endangered species, that the total monetary figure is elusive. It is in the millions and millions of dollars…
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For decades, fish conservation has been trout-centric. It has also been wild-centric, not native-centric…
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In what can only be seen as an act of turf protection, and a lack of concern for at-risk species, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (DIFW) and Department of Marine Resources (DMR) opposed a bill that would have made the state-level listing of federally listed species mandatory…
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The following pictures are recent NFC/Epic/MidCurrent raffle winner Grayson Jones enjoying his new Epic 4wt Packlight fly rod…
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The Biden administration is set to toss out President Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back the number of streams, marshes and other wetlands that fall under federal protection, kicking off a legal and regulatory scuffle over the fate of wetlands and waterways around the country, from the arid West to the swampy South…
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The work of PA NFC in regard to drawing attention to wild native brook trout was recognized in Outdoor News…
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NFC partnered with Friends of Merrymeeting Bay and others to try to pass a law that would require the state of Maine to list federally listed species at the state-level…
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No one can challenge that federally-listed species are in trouble at the state level. This is especially true in regard to Atlantic salmon which are only found in Maine…
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The Alabama chapter of NFC had a booth at the 2021 Darterfest in Birmingham, Alabama…
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