Game-changing issues for anglers in 2012
A lot has gone on this year that has and will continue to impact our bays and ocean waters and the health of our fishery. Here are four major issues that I thought about a lot this year. Global warming Hurricane Sandy continues to create awareness about global warning, with government officials, politicians and coastal [...]
Read More →More to menhaden vote than meets the eye
I spoke with Bob Ballou, assistant to the director of the R.I. Department of Environmental Management (DEM), and Rick Bellavance, president of the R.I. Party & Charter Boat Association, about the Dec. 14 Atlantic Slates Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) deliberations and votes on Amendment 2 concerning the management of Atlantic menhaden. Ballou and Bellavance, along [...]
Read More →What Atlantic menhaden do best: They get eaten
I have written about Atlantic menhaden and the role they play in our fishery in Narragansett Bay and in the ocean a number of times. Atlantic menhaden serve as roving filters, converting algae into energy and thus reducing nutrient loads in bays and covers. An adult menhaden, through its unique filtering gills, is able to [...]
Read More →Being thankful for the Atlantic menhaden
It’s Thanksgiving already, and we have a lot to be thankful for in Rhode Island. We were clobbered by hurricane Sandy but did not experience the loss of life and property that New York and New Jersey experienced. By no means am I belittling our losses in Westerly, Misquamicut and along our southern coastal shores. [...]
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