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Anyone target dolphin fish or mahi-mahi as they are sometimes called? I ask because I have recently been appointed as an advisor to the SAFMC to represent fishermen in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions. The SAFMC (south Atlantic fishery management council) is in charge of all dolphin...

Happy New Year guys! May 2022 be better than 2021.

Most of yesterday's MAFMC/ASMFC meeting dealt with setting 2022 measures for these three species on the recreational side of things.. They started off with fluke, where we could have seen a substantial liberalization. Instead they settled on about a 16% liberalization by directing the states to...

For 2022 the cod season for Georges bank cod will be closed from May 1, to July 31st. The rest of the year it will be open with a bag limit of five fish per man between 22 and 28 inches. In case you didn't know Georges bank cod are all cod south of the 42.20 line all the way south to Cape Hatteras.

Happy turkey to all you turkey's.

I just found out that my nomination for a seat on the New England Fishery management council has been forwarded to the Secretary of commerce and letters of endorsement for my nomination (Michael Plaia). Send endorsements of nominees to [email protected]. NMFS will officially record...

I need your help. I have been nominated for a seat on the New England Fishery management Council and I need your support. As you know the NEFMC is dominated by commercial fishing interests and I hope that you all would like to see a recreational fisherman appointed to the council. You can write...

I need your help. I have been nominated for a seat on the New England Fishery management Council and I need your support. As you know the NEFMC is dominated by commercial fishing interests and I hope that you all would like to see a recreational fisherman appointed to the council. You can write...

Just wishing all my NY fishing buddies a merry Christmas!

And wanted to say hello to all my old friends. I'll try to stop by more often.

Chris Martell? Anyone know how to get ahold of Chris, from the Nor'east website who used to e one of our go-to guys on reel repairs?

Jut wanted to stop by and wish my old buds a merry Christmas!

My comments: This is in response to your solicitation for comments on the inclusion of conservational equivalency as an option in the Mid-Atlantic fishery management council’s options for managing the black sea bass fishery. While these comments are in response for your solicitation regarding...

for those of you who are fellow fish fanatics, I took quick inventory today. The big tanks are gone, lost in the moves. But in descending order here is what I have left; 1 - 125 gallon 2 - 55 gallon 7 - 30 gallon long 2 - 29 gallon high 4 - 15 gallon 13 buckets of "live" sand 1 - trickle filter...

Just stopped by to wish all my friends on here a Happy Easter or Passover, whichever is your preference.

But when meetings affect the recreational industry, the atmosphere is very different. I thought of today’s “tough love” theme because, when I’m at a lot of these meetings, I feel as if I’m reliving my much younger days, and again seeing the inmates at my old junior high school’s detention hall...

Press releases, meeting summaries and motions from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s 2019 Winter Meeting are now available at ASMFC

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ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Board Approves Status Quo Measures for 2019 Recreational Black Sea Bass Fishery Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Management Board approved status quo measures for the 2019...

Anyone interested in taking a ride up to ME and doing a tide or two of smelt fishing? I hear they have been biting pretty good up there recently. Maybe two of us could take a ride and Don and Dom will join us and we can take a four man shed together? Maybe sometime next week or the week after?