Next week ASMFC Commissioners from up and down the east coast will convene in Arlington, VA for the Commission’s Winter Meeting. As part of this meeting, ASMFC’s Striped Bass Board is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, January 31st at 3:30 PM to discuss Addendum 1 to Amendment 7 – which could bring the first substantial management changes since the enactment of Amendment 7 earlier this year Addendum I seeks to address some Board members’ concerns related to how commercial Striped Bass quotas are ...

2022 was a busy year for the Rhode Island BHA team, and we were able to build momentum on several key policy issues and achieve a couple wins too. Below you’ll find updates on our work at the Rhode Island General Assembly and other state agencies from 2022   Issue: Shoreline Access By the beginning of the 2022 Legislative Session the House Legislative Study Commission on Shoreline Access, which was created during the prior year’s session, was in the process of wrapping up its activities and ...

From the Chair Hello everyone and happy Public Lands Month!  As the fronts push through and the nights are getting cooler, autumn is creeping in. Early goose, squirrel and early archery deer seasons have opened here in New York and I hope you are getting ready as the rest of hunting seasons will be open before you know it. Do not forget about fishing. The salmon are working out of Lake Ontario into the Salmon River in Pulaski and the steelhead will be in soon. When it comes to trout fishing, ...

Take Action Now! For the past few months, we have been excited to share that MassWildlife will be moving forward on several of our regulatory priorities. These include ending hunting hour restrictions imposed on Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) stocked with pheasants and extending the season on gray squirrels. Presently, hunters pursuing game other than pheasants (deer, small game, waterfowl, etc.) on WMAs that are stocked during the season were unable to hunt the ½ hour before sunrise and ...

This is one of those times where we can look back and realize in very specific terms that we CAN make a difference for the resources we care so much about when we engage in the processes that manage them. In a recent conversation on Episode 48 of the American Saltwater Guides Association’s “Guide Post” podcast New England Chapter Board Chair Mike Woods mentioned that if the outcome of ASMFC’s Spring Meeting, and specifically the outcome of the final action on Amendment 7, ended up being ...