Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Stu Apte, Mark Sosin, Tim Rajeff, Bob Popovics, Dave Klausmeyer headline L.L.Bean’s annual celebration of all things fishing
FREEPORT, Maine—The biggest names in the history of fishing will be at L.L.Bean on March 20-21 for L.L.Bean’s annual Spring Fishing Weekend. These “Legends of Fishing” will be available at the store from 10am [...]

You might be saying goodbye to fishing in the U.S.A. and you can thank the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Obama administration. No Great Lakes? No coastal areas, oceans or inland waters? This will only hurt our small family business’ and our hard working middle class. You already tax the shit out [...]

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Protect the Upper Delaware River Watershed from Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling
Stone Energy Corporation is requesting permits for two Marcellus Shale gas drilling projects in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. One is to legalize a natural gas exploration and development project at an existing well site and the other permit seeks to withdraw 700,000 gallons of water per [...]

“Rise Above Plastics” a commercial by BPN to bring awareness of the problems that plastic brings to our oceans.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2010) — Dead and deformed fish indicate selenium pollution from mountaintop coal mining is causing permanent damage to the environment and poses serious health risks, says a Wake Forest University biologist who will brief U.S. Senators on his research Feb. 23.
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The Government of The Bahamas is not minded to permit the use of purse seine or net fishing within the waters of The Bahamas.
This method of fishing could result in the possible depletion or signification reduction of the fishing stocks in Bahamian waters. Having regard to the importance of sportfishing to the Tourism Industry, the [...]

TOPSAIL ISLAND, N.C. – The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center has filed a lawsuit in federal court asking the State of North Carolina to stop authorizing gill net fishing in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The lawsuit cites studies by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]

The European Commission is proposing a ban on commercial bluefin tuna fishing to save the fish from possible extinction, but several countries, one being Japan, strongly oppose the move. France is in favor of the ban but for a limited time only. Bluefin tuna stocks have dropped 80 per cent in the last few decades.
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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how many words can be inspired by pictures that are thousands of years old? Especially when the pictures are petroglyphs, rock carvings created in Hawaii thousands of years ago to evoke the artists’ involvement with and respect for their natural surroundings.
Words like conservation, stewardship, and fisheries come to [...]