A sign project at Vermont’s state fishing access areas featuring wild native lake trout got underway this month thanks to a joint effort by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and Native Fish Coalition…
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So why would an organization whose sole focus is on wild native fish care about lake trout when they are such a problem?…
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Unfortunately, the critically important Wild Trout Management program, the only formal wild native trout protection program in the state, remains stalled out at just 16 waters and gaping geographic holes…
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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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After posting informational signs noting the presence and status of endangered sturgeon on the Connecticut River, MA NFC is now starting on the Merrimack River…
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Massachusetts NFC has posted informational signs pertaining to the presence of wild brook trout redds on the Swift River above Route 9…
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Massachusetts NFC worked with Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation and Pioneer Valley Trout Unlimited to develop an informational sign pertaining the presence of wild brook trout redds in the upper Swift River tailwater below Quabbin Reservoir…
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Built in the late spring and early summer by folks wanting to cool down, or simply looking for something to do, these rock dams are abandoned in the early fall…
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NFC worked with Protect Rhode Island Brook Trout, Rhode Island Trout Unlimited, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, and Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife…
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The South Carolina chapter of NFC is working with South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to collect, identify, and map populations of South Carolina’s pure-strain native redeye bass, the Bartram's bass…
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The South Carolina chapter of NFC recently completed its fourth tabling event of 2022…
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The Friends of the Talladega National Forest worked with Alabama NFC and other agencies and organizations…
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As part of a multi-state project, NFC worked with NOAA Fisheries and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries to develop an informational sign pertaining to the presence of federally endangered shortnose sturgeon…
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First up is Massachusetts, where MA NFC is working in conjunction with NOAA Fisheries and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries to post signs in critical sturgeon habitat…
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Alabama NFCs Turkey Creek darter sign is spotlighted in a great video by Alabama Rivers and Streams Network…
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The Alabama chapter of NFC worked with Cawaco RC&D Council, Freshwater Land Trust, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and several land owners to post informational signs in regard to federally endangered watercress darter…
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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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NFC National Advisory Council member, and founder of the Lonesome Larry project, Topher Jones, spent the day with Idaho Fish and Game posting informational sockeye salmon signs…
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The Pennsylvania Chapter of Native Fish Coalition had a table to inform attendees of the organization and its mission to protect, preserve, and restore Pennsylvania’s wild native fishes…
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As the kids return to school, the weather transitions from summer to fall, and families shift gears for the school year, the recreational masses abandon our streams, leaving behind cairns, rock dams, and other stream alterations…
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