NMFS Announces 2006 Bluefin Quotas and Effort Controls For a full description of this action please visit the library. The BFT retention limits are as follows: The coastwide General category Atlantic BFT fishery will reopen on June 1, 2006. The daily retention limit will be three large medium or giant BFT (73 inches or greater) […]
New Report Shows Landmark Success of Wildlife Grants Program RALEIGH, N.C. (May 26, 2006) – The nation’s 50 state fish and wildlife agencies aren’t waiting around for more wildlife to be listed on the Endangered Species List. According to a new report that documents the last five years of the State Wildlife Grants Program, state […]
THE BLUE MARLIN ARE OUT THERE!Crystal Watters On the last day of the Swansboro Rotary Tournament, angler Butch Bryant aboard his father’s boat Maggie caught at big blue marlin weighing in at 553 lbs. to win the annual Memorial Day Tournament.“It took us about an hour and a half to get it to the boat”, […]
Sportfishing Coalition Lauds Improvements to Fisheries Bill by House Resources Committee WASHINGTON – A coalition of leading recreational angling and conservation organizations welcomed today’s action in the U.S. House of Representatives to advance an update of the country’s most important marine fisheries law. The House Resources Committee voted to send H.R. 5018, the American Fisheries […]
