Fisheries Management

Apache Trout in Danger

  • By: Aaron Otto
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"The Apache trout can only be found in its native State of Arizona, but due to a deteriorating waterpipe feeding clean water to Alchesay National Fish Hatchery, America’s rarest trout may be in danger."

The "F" Bomb

  • By: Ted Williams
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"In 1996, for the first time in 220 years, Congress steered away from flexibility in marine-fish management with the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which amended Magnuson by outlawing overfishing and mandating speedy recovery of depleted stocks."

Access Denied?

  • By: Seth Norman
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SPECIAL REPORT: Non-resident anglers may be regulated off B.C. steelhead rivers.

TRCP, Labor Unions Urge Leaders to Heal Habitat While Healing Economy

Conservationists advocate plan for improving natural resources, job market via stimulus package

WASHINGTON – In a joint letter, the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership today called on Senate leaders to swiftly pass

Angling World Loses a Voice

  • By: Fly Rod and Reel
Jim Range

A life-long outdoorsman, Range was instrumental in the conservation and continued protection of many different corners of the American landscape and was a passionate advocate for the country’s fish and wildlife and their habitat.

Colorado Energy Leases in Critical Habitat Draw Protests

TRCP objects to proposed oil and gas drilling in native trout, mule deer, sage grouse habitat, urges revision of federal mineral leasing process on public lands

WASHINGTON – Spurred by concerns over the effects of energy development on valuable fish and wildlife habitat, the Theodore

NOAA to Establish Eight Federal Marine Protected Areas in the South Atlantic

Sportfishing community lauds this contrast to fisheries management by proclamation

Alexandria, VA – January 5, 2009 – Industry and fishery conservation groups learned today that the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine

Conservation Coalition Releases 2009 Policy Agenda

Partnership announces guideposts in drive to guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt and fish

WASHINGTON – The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) today released its 2009 Conservation Policy Agenda, which represents the consensus priorities of its wide-ranging partners.

CCA NY FINDS LICENSE PROPOSAL FATALLY FLAWED

NO ASSURANCE THAT MARINE RESOURCES WOULD BENEFIT

West Babylon, NY—Coastal Conservation Association New York (“CCA NY”) has long supported New York’s adoption of a properly-constituted recreational salt water fishing license. However, it does not support the licensing

State of Our Trout

State of Our Trout

By Ted Williams

Part I

All across our nation, but especially in the West, unique species and subspecies of trout are in desperate trouble. Remnant populations hang on mostly in headwaters where natural barriers protect them from competition, predation and introgression