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…
Read MoreOperating 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…
Read MoreWe do not believe enough time has elapsed since its chemical reclamation in 2011 to declare Big Reed [Pond] as fully recovered…
Read MoreNFC’s analysis of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife North Zone live bait restriction proposal.
Read MoreI am writing on behalf of Native Fish Coalition to express our general support for the Draft Fisheries Management Plan for Inland Trout Streams in New York, but also to convey some concerns relative to wild native brook trout…
Read MoreOnce badly polluted, the Androscoggin River helped drive the critically important Clean Water Act…
Read MoreMaine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) is proposing to stock nonnative brown trout in Patrick Lake in Downeast Maine, the headwaters of the East Machias River, home to federally endangered Atlantic salmon…
Read MoreI am writing on behalf of Native Fish Coalition to express our support for the draft freshwater fishing regulations change to institute a minimum length limit of 8” for harvested trout and charr in Rhode Island…
Read MoreMaine NFC and DOwneast Salmon Federation submitted a letter of opposition in regard to the proposed stocking of nonnative brown trout in a federally endangered Atlantic salmon watershed.
Read MoreMaine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) recently created a series of working groups to help develop frameworks for managing the states various fish species…
Read MoreThe current make-up of the critically important NH Fish and Game Commission does not serve the resource well. It also leaves non-sportsmen voiceless. In fact, it doesn’t even serve many sportsmen well…
Read MoreThe Recovering America's Wildlife Act is a critical initiative that should be supported by any and all conservationists, hunters, and anglers.
Read MoreA post-revision look at Maine’s North Zone live bait proposal…
Read MoreMaine NFC chimes in on July 2019 MDIFW proposed regulations package…
Read MoreMaine NFC chimes in on land-use bill. The bill deals with development in the unincorporated territories...
Read MoreMaine NFC’s formal written comments pertaining to IFW’s proposed live bait restrictions for the North Zone.
Read MoreNFC Vice Chair Bob Mallard writes about the native fish of Baxter State Park in in Friends of Baxter State Park News…
Read MoreMaine NFC Chair Emily Bastian writes about NFC and native fish in Fly Fish America Magazine…
Read MoreThe Vermont Chapter of Native Fish Coalition has sent a letter to the VT media and Fish & Wildlife supporting the governor’s proposal to close a hatchery to address a budget shortfall…
Read MoreWhile working on signs for State Heritage Fish waters on Passamaquoddy tribal land, the Maine chapter of NFC talked to the tribe about a water on their land that has been eligible for inclusion in the program for over three years…
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