National, Maine, and Vermont NFC hosted a booth at the American Museum of Fly Fishing 2019 Summer Expo…
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NFC’s largest volunteer effort to date is posting signs on Maine’s 575+ State Heritage Fish waters…
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Maine’s State Heritage Fish waters are the largest collection of legally protected wild native fish lakes and ponds in the nation…
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How to tell rare Arctic charr from brook trout…
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Considered the national gene bank for the rare Arctic charr, Flood’s Pond in Maine is a living laboratory…
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What is the limiting factor in regard to New Hampshire’s wild native brook trout? Is it habitat? Angler exploitation? Stocking? You be the judge…
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An overview of what NFC would like to see in regard to how New Hampshire classifies brook trout…
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Ice-out is also an environmental indicator. While year-to-year variances are meaningless, multi-year trends can be an indication of changes in weather patterns. They can also be an indicator of a warming or cooling climate…
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As NFC has noted in recent campaign update, while a step in the right direction, we do not believe that the proposal to reduce Vermont’s 12-fish daily limit on native brook trout in rivers and streams goes far enough to ensure the safety of the resource…
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The following outlines how Vermont would stack up against other states under a proposal to reduce the daily limit on brook trout in rivers and streams from 12-fish to 8-fish…
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The following is the follow-up to a field trip to White Mountain National Forest that NFC participated in with U.S. Forest Service…
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An overview of what NFC is doing and where in regard to no-live-fish-as-bait signage on state-owned land in Maine…
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The following represents the response from Maine Department of Marine Resources in regard to a request made by NFC and a coalition of conservation organizations, scientists, and activists, to look into listing Atlantic salmon under Maine’s Marine Endangered Species Act…
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After being refused by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife due to the position that Atlantic salmon are a “marine species,” NFC and a coalition of conservation organizations, scientists, and activists went to Maine Department of Marine Resources to look into listing Atlantic salmon under Maine’s Marine Endangered Species Act…
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The following represents NH NFCs response to questions from the US Forest Service in regard to manmade rock dams, a damaged culvert, and the Zealand River…
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The following represents the response from Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in regard to a request made by NFC and a coalition of conservation organizations, scientists, and activists, to look into listing Atlantic salmon under Maine’s Endangered Species Act (MESA.)
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The following represents a request made by NFC and a coalition of conservation organizations, scientists, and activists, to Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to look into listing Atlantic salmon under Maine’s Endangered Species Act (MESA)…
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This reclassification to a Class 1 WTMA would provide best-in-class management for the wild native brook trout of Freeman Brook by eliminating all harvest of brook trout, prohibiting stocking, and requiring barbless single-point lures and flies…
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Operating in a near vacuum, with limited opportunity for public input, influence, or disclosure, NH F&G is stocking over wild fish by rule not exception, stocking nonnative trout in critically important…
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