The ASGA team has been advocating for sustainable fisheries on all fronts in 2024. In the same week headlined by Addendum II for striped bass and an NOI hearing for redfish in Louisiana, ASGA Maine Board Member Capt. Kyle Schaefer was called to testify as a witness at the US
Herring at the Supreme Court? How an Upcoming Decision Could Significantly Disrupt Fisheries Management and Federal Rulemaking: This week The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments for two fisheries cases. In practice, however, these cases deal more with the separation of powers among our three branches
Feature Photo: Rex Messing Monday, August 7, 2023 This afternoon the ASGA team was briefed by NOAA officials that the Fisheries Effort Survey has been overestimating recreational fishing effort. Our current understanding is that this overestimation is around 30-40%, as was discovered in a recent pilot study to evaluate potential
Written by Capt. Cody Rubner. This is definitely the best blog title I have had the pleasure of writing for ASGA. It’s going to be really difficult to top going forward. I’m okay with that. We all peak at some point. You’re probably curious where in ASGA’s journey to fight
Here at ASGA, we’ve been slammed these past few weeks as 2022 wraps up. We’ve been dealing with a striped bass commercial transfer addendum at the Commission, potential offshore wind revenue sharing legislation in Congress, forage fish protections in New England, year-end Fishery Management Council meetings, and the great preliminary
By Will Poston, Policy Associate This Wednesday, November 16th, at 6pm EST, NOAA Fisheries will host a public webinar to hear suggestions for updating the National Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Policy. This policy is periodically updated to best reflect the priorities and needs of a very diverse recreational angling sector.
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
Here’s what went down this year… on and off the water By Capt. John McMurray, President, ASGA How would I best describe the fishing this past year? Not bad really, but it could have been better. I think that’s the sentiment from most guides in New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
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
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