Calling Mother Nature: Please Prove Me Wrong

I have never been so afraid that I know what’s happening and wanted so desperately to be proven wrong. What … Jul 3rd, 2015

Our National Fish? Rally Around Stripers

The greatest overarching struggle we face as an industry (the fishing industry: commercial plus recreational) is economics—the lopsided relationship between us and other similar industries in terms of total jobs, total economic value, total political constituency, and total political juice.Jun 3rd, 2015

Fishing Futures: It’s Time RI Capitalized on its Foremost Natural Resource

One of the many things that has gotten lost or been pushed out of view by the emotional excesses of the winter striper-regulation wrangle: I am—have always been— an unapologetic meat fisherman.Apr 28th, 2015