It was recently proposed that there are three new species of Salvelinus with microendemic distributions in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA. The three species of Salvelinus were hypothesized to be distinct from their congener Brook Trout S. fontinalis based on three meristic traits—pored lateral-line scales, vertebral counts, and number of basihyal teeth…
Read MoreWhile Maine’s Arctic charr are getting a lot of positive press these days, all is not well, and what you don’t know, as few are writing about it, could kill them…
Read MoreNFC will be attending the 2022 Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival on January 15 through 16…
Read MoreNFC is excited to announce the formation of a new Georgia chapter…
Read MoreIf you have ever fished a remote pond in the backcountry of Maine, it’s very likely that you saw one or more abandoned and in disrepair boats along the shore…
Read MoreNFC has the youngest average age of any sporting or conservation group I have been associated with…
Read MoreAnglers have long recognized the virtue of releasing some or all of their catch. In 1939, the late Lee Wulff, a noted writer, angler, and conservationist, observed that
“The fish you release is a gift to another angler and remember, it may have been someone’s similar gift to you”…
Read MoreNFC Executive Director Bob Mallard speaks up in regard to the growing nonnative, and highly invasive, smallmouth bass in Maine’s Rapid River…
Read MoreWhat does the Maine fishing law book have to do with wild native fish…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreSomeone 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…
Read MoreThe state of Maine and a handful of our rivers are the only places in the country that still have wild Atlantic salmon…
Read MoreNFC Executive Director Bob Mallard discusses why catch-and-release still makes sense regardless of the increasing number of people saying it doesn’t…
Read MoreNice NFC logo drop and shout-out on the Sage blog.…
Read MoreNFC 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…
Read MoreChase 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…
Read MoreME NFC attended the first Maine Fly Guys and Maine Fly Co. Maine Fly Fishing Summer Showcase…
Read MoreMembers 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…
Read MoreOver 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…
Read MoreFor decades, fish conservation has been trout-centric. It has also been wild-centric, not native-centric…
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