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Exempted Fishing Permits for East Coast Deep-Set Buoy Gear
NMFS issued 7 Exempted Fishing Permits (EFP) for vessels…
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Is the US West Coast Going From Drift Gill Nets to Longlines?!?
A Recent Application for Longlines to fish off the West Coast
This…
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Recreational Fishing Gear, Bottom Trawls & Pelagic Longline Gear Are NOT the Same!!
New Executive Order could stymy recreational fishing in Marine…
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TBF Tells NMFS NO To Harming Billfish and Sportfishing
As promised, below are TBF's final comments for the NMFS initiative…
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New NMFS Initiatives Benefit Longlines and Harm Recreational Community
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is proposing initiatives…
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New Gear Restrictions May Help Billfish in the Pacific
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission recently announced…
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Help Keep Pelagic Longlines OUT of Closed Zones
The U.S. pelagic longline closed zones and gear restricted…
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Dolphin Wahoo Fishery Allocation Update
The Billfish Foundation recently submitted comments again…
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Changes in Mahi-Mahi allocation coming up in the Atlantic?
Fly Navarro and Adrienne Katz with a nice mahi-mahi
The South…