One of our biggest fears with offshore wind (OSW) development is the possibility that fishing guides and recreational anglers won’t be able to fish or navigate around these offshore structures. We’ve heard assurances from developers that they don’t plan to prevent access from the OSW arrays (outside of temporary construction
By Will Poston, Policy Consultant Last Thursday, February 17, I made the journey down to Tallahassee, FL, to join Captains for Clean Water and a bunch of fishing guides to watch the Florida Senate debate and vote on Senate Bill (SB) 2508. To say the least, it was powerful.
By Will Poston, Policy Consultant By now, you’ve likely heard something or other about the prospect of commercial-sized offshore wind farms coming to the U.S. Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and beyond. Make no mistake—we at ASGA are fish people, not energy gurus, and were less than enchanted at the need to come
On the morning of Tuesday, December 14th, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) met jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (Commission) Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board (Board) to consider several issues within the black sea bass, summer flounder, and scup fisheries. Ten hours later, the
By Will Poston, Fisheries Policy Consultant For longer than a year, we’ve been keeping an eye on the Recreational Reform Initiative (RRI), a comprehensive joint effort by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (Commission) to improve the management of four key recreational fisheries—black
By Will Poston, Fisheries Policy Consultant A Congressionally mandated, 200-plus page study that mentions “red snapper” 297 times could only come from one piece of legislation: The Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018, or “Modern Fish Act” for short. This legislation was fueled in part by growing frustration among
By Will Poston Last week, the Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) held its June Meeting. Several important topics were on the meeting agenda, including Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) estimates for 2020, updates on the Recreational Reform Initiative (more on this in upcoming blogs), and an offshore wind
Will Poston, Policy Consultant Bluefish will tear your $9 rigged soft plastic to shreds. Same goes for that hunk of feathers that you spent 10 minutes tying. But these yellow-eyed devils are an iconic recreational species along the Atlantic coast. How many times has your day been saved by a
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