• Same fish, different name: Strong medicine planned for weakfish - Florida Times-Union
  
• Hearing for herring to be held in Portsmouth - Seacoastonline.com
  
• Freda: Anglers catching a break - NorthJersey.com
  
• DEC Reschedules Public Information Meetings on River Herring Management - ReadMedia (press release)
  
• The Fishing Line: Spring is here - Cape May County Herald
  
• Increase in horseshoe crabs could be good news for commercial fishermen - Bethany Beach Wave
  
• Meeting may affect Hudson fishing - Albany Times Union
  
• RFA: NJ says the shark season will go on - Sport Fishing
  
• VA legislators kill bills to transfer menhaden management to VMRC - The Chesapeake Bay Journal
  
• Outdoors: Changes to regulations may help fluke fishermen - Norwich Bulletin
  

Conservation

“UNITED WE FISH”, OR UNITED WE OVERFISH?

What exactly are anglers marching for here?

MORE BAD NEWS FOR STRIPED BASS…

ASMFC moves forward with addendum increasing commercial harvest,
while New York takes steps toward a directed trawl fishery.

CONSERVATION LOOSES A CHAMPION

CCA Mourns Passing of Walter Fondren
Visionary conservationist helped change the way marine resources are managed
HOUSTON, TX – The conservation community lost one of its true visionaries with the passing of Coastal Conservation Association founder Walter W. Fondren III last week in Houston. A passionate conservationist, avid hunter and skilled fisherman, Fondren was a driving force [...]