As a bottom-feeder, sturgeon are sometimes accidentally caught by anglers in rivers and estuaries. This led NFC to reach out to NOAA Fisheries and several New England state marine resources agencies…
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Help the Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition raise money to place these important informational signs at Maine's 584 and counting State Heritage Fish lakes and ponds...
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In early spring 2023, NFC was approached by Northwoods Brewing Co. out of Northwood, New Hampshire, about developing a beer commemorating Maine’s State Heritage Fish waters.…
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Nicholas and company logged over 4oo miles in 4 trucks and spent over 10 hours driving, hiking, and posting signs...
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It wouldn’t take much of a change in flow to turn this dam from a minor inconvenience to a potential fish passage blocking structure…
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Maine NFC’s State Heritage Fish Waters informational sign initiative is NFC’s largest volunteer effort to date…
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In what is NFC’s largest volunteer effort to date, informational signs were just posted on the 350th State Heritage Fish Water in Maine…
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What is certain is that MDIFW just turned the clock back twenty-five years in regard to protecting a high-value wild native brook trout water from further stocking as part of an experiment…
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The Maine chapter of NFC tabled at the Eastern Maine Sportsmen’s Show in Orono Maine Friday March 15 through Sunday March 17…
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As part of a NFC wide project, we just ordered informational signs pertaining to federally listed sturgeon for New Jersey and Pennsylvania…
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After successfully getting state-endangered redfin pickerel added to the fishing laws book as a not-to-be-targeted species…
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NFC just tabled at the 2024 The Fly Fishing Show in Marlborough, Massachusetts…
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The Maine chapter of NFC has been busy posting endangered sturgeon informational signs as part of a multi-state effort…
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The Maine chapter of NFC worked with Friends of Merrymeeting Bay to develop information signs denoting the possible presence of state-endangered redfin pickerel…
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In spring 2023, the Maine chapter of NFC discovered that there were no protections for state endangered redfin pickerel…
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Maine NFC attended the White Nose Pete Festival in historic Rangeley, Maine, in mid June 2023…
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ME NFC is wrapping up at Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine, a 3-day agricultural and organic living event that attracts tens of thousands of attendees each year…
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Building on a multi-state project started in Massachusetts pertaining to federally Endangered shortnose sturgeon and Threatened Atlantic sturgeon…
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After a few emails that included a request from a representative for the group for some pictures of native brook trout, a contact person from Maine Audubon removed the nonnative brown trout picture and replaced it with a few native brook trout pictures…
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This package represents a concerning reduction in protections for wild native salmonids, including State Heritage Fish waters and rare Arctic charr, through increased bag limits and/or decreased minimum length limits…
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