Atlantic Region

Atlantic Region

Key Issues

  • SHARKED Act 

    New legislation focuses on addressing sharks eating anglers’ catch.  

  • Support Youth Fishing Programs

    Taking kids fishing just a few times creates a lifelong love of the sport!

  • Protect the Use of Traditional Tackle

    Efforts are underway to prevent the use of lead tackle for fishing despite scant evidence that using lead has a harmful impact on wildlife populations.

  • Man bottomfising for red snapper

    Protect Access to Bottomfishing in the South Atlantic

    Feds want to close bottom fishing in the South Atlantic.

  • Summer Flounder, Scup, Black Sea Bass and Bluefish

    The process for setting recreational management measures like bag limits, size and season is in need of reform.

  • A dense school of forage fish

    Forage Fish

    To have healthy sportfish populations, there first must be a healthy food base. Simply put, big fish need plenty of little fish to eat.

  • Menhaden

    Menhaden, also known as bunkers or pogies, are a key food source for sportfish species like striped bass, bluefish, weakfish, king mackerel and cobia.

  • Striped Bass

    Striped bass are one of the most important fisheries on the Atlantic coast. In fact, striped bass are the most caught saltwater fish in terms of pounds by recreational anglers.

  • Fishing reel at sunrise

    30 x 30 Initiative

    Establishing a goal of protecting 30% of globe’s land and water by the year 2030.

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Atlantic Fisheries Policy Director

Michael Waine

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