Attention Bristol Bay supporters! Our friends over at Trout Unlimited Alaska and the Save Bristol Bay campaign are asking people to take a moment this week to share some photos or videos from Bristol Bay to their social media accounts. If you have been lucky enough to visit this part of Alaska, you understand the…
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Success From Last Year’s “Day For Bristol Bay”
We wanted to extend a big thank you to everyone who contributed to last August’s “Day For Bristol Bay.” The event was arranged by the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) as a collective effort between manufacturers, guides, and lodges to help raise money to defend Bristol Bay. As a result of the day, over…
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3 Things To Watch For In 2020 With The Proposed Pebble Mine
An update from our friends at Trout Unlimited Alaska and Save Bristol Bay regarding what to expect with the proposed Pebble Mine this year. Let’s all work together to make 2020 the year this project finally gets put to rest for good! “We’ve been saying it a lot recently, and Pebble knows it too: 2020…
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Tarpon Connectivity
Last year we posted on Bonefish and Tarpon Trust’s new brand campaign which focused on the connectivity between different bonefisheries. It explains how populations of bonefish throughout the ocean are connected thanks to fish migrations and oceans currents. Those factors do not just apply to Bonefish and the BTT follows up with an education video called…
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Single Use Plastic Ban In The Bahamas
Starting January 1st, 2020, the Bahamas will join the over 40 countries that have already implemented a single use plastic and styrofoam ban. The Ministry of Environment and Housing has made the move joining other enlightened countries to protect their fragile ecosystem. For decades plastic debris has washed up along the beaches of the Bahamas,…
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Good Article To Share
I recently read an article that was published a million years ago in 2010 but the message seemed as relevant and time sensitive as ever. The article was written by Robert MacDougall-Davis and featured in an online journal called The Ecologist. It is titled, “Fishing and the environment: why the two are inextricably linked.” I…
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Angler Awareness // The Plastic Plague Follow Up
Earlier this year we posted on a device designed to help clean the ocean of some of the plastic that has accumulate in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest of the 5 plastic patches that have formed in our world’s oceans. At the time, the device was not collecting plastic like planned. Then it…
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Mending Lines – A Short Film
Our friends over at Fishpond just released a new video from a project they have been working on right in their backyard, the Colorado River’s headwaters. “10 years ago, the Bruchez family had a meeting to discuss what needed to be done with their family ranch on the Colorado River. Water levels weren’t what they…
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“To save the Klamath River salmon, shut down the hatcheries”
For the conservation minded fisherman, here is an interesting article by Jacques Leslie for the Los Angeles Times published on June 13th. In the piece, Leslie examines the plan to remove 4 dams on the Klamath River in an attempt to replenish the river’s Salmon run. This is the world’s largest dam removal project, but…
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Angler Awareness: The Lionfish
The presence of Lionfish is causing an already unhealthy coral reef community in the Gulf of Mexico to become even worse. The ultra aggressive Lionfish is a popular aquarium species native to the Indo-Pacific. Introduced to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, they will eat just about any smaller fish, many of which…
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