New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) Warns Of An Important Public Health Issue – Consumption Of Toxins In Striped Bass
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) recently ran a story about an important public health issue—consumption of toxins in striped bass. Here’s a link to the article. This article will also run in the Cape Cod Times and the New Bedford Standard-Times. When Stripers Forever learned that Massachusetts is the only state that […]
Massachusetts Legislature To Hold Hearings On Two SF Sponsored Bills
On Thursday, November 5, the Massachusetts legislature will hold hearings to include two bills that Stripers Forever are sponsoring, including: SB476 (SD225) – An Act relative to the conservation of striped bass, which would restrict participation in the commercial striped bass fishery to those individuals with an historically significant (1,000 lbs average for previous five […]
An Uncertain Future For Our Living Blue Planet
Fresh, new evidence shows why we need to act on marine conservation A new report on the health of the ocean finds that the marine vertebrate population has declined by 49 percent between 1970 and 2012. WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report tracks 5,829 populations of 1,234 mammal, bird, reptile, and fish species through a marine living planet […]
