Our blog is where we break down the conservation issues that sportsmen and women need to know about. Get the latest intel from Capitol Hill, learn more about complex science and policy, and follow along with field reports from our staff on the ground. This is where conservation gets personal.
The menhaden reduction industry has frequently and publicly tried to justify its harvest levels, destructive practices, and fishery management decisions in its favor; here TRCP breaks down its misleading claims.
The new Notice of Intent could once again permit industrial menhaden harvest in waters as shallow as five feet - rolling back a successful 2024 conservation measure developed through collaboration between anglers, industry, and state leaders
Revised models indicate the need to cut the commercial Atlantic menhaden fishery quota by more than half to protect striped bass and other predators, but the ASMFC Menhaden Management Board voted today to reduce the catch limit by only 20 percent.
The 2025 Atlantic menhaden stock assessment updates connect menhaden harvest directly to the health of marine predators, and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission projections suggest cutting commercial catch limit by half to protect marine...
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership breaks down the final results of a 2024 Gulf menhaden bycatch study in Louisiana, which reveals multiple ways to protect redfish and other sportfish from industrial fishing practices.
New federal legislation would modernize accessibility to saltwater recreational fishing regulations and marine waters navigation information.
New bipartisan legislation creates a national task force to address rising shark depredation through science, collaboration, and education, supporting both anglers and ocean health.
TRCP’s marine fisheries intern reflects on how personal experience shaped his interest in the outdoors, the need for youth angling participation, and the importance of forage fish conservation for the next generation
Each year, TRCP provides a Fisheries Conservation Summit at ICAST, the world’s largest sportfishing trade show, hosted by the American Sportfishing Association. At this year’s summit, top minds in fisheries policy and legislation came...
Data suggest that 22,000 or more redfish, a host of other sportfish, and millions of non-target forage fish are killed annually by industrial menhaden fishing fleets (or "pogy boats") off the Louisiana coast.
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