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Farming fish makes very good sense. I’d even urge my grandson to skip plastics and grow fins.

If you see a fisheries violation, should you report it? Or keep your trap shut. “None of your business,” say some. These folks think it is clever or even sporty to break the law or ignore others who do so.

There’s really scary and startling scientific news clouding our day.

It would be a one-sentence law that would clear up a lot of confusion.

That may be a more accurate term for all the talk going on about creating a new hybrid category of recreational fishing.

We’ve joked (half seriously) that fishing laws seem to be changed with the moon phases, and that not even law enforcement folks may know the latest wrinkles.

Very sadly, the grand sugar buyout, heralded worldwide two years ago, has turned so bitter it’s indigestible.

Critics of the total closure of all Atlantic red snapper fishing are desperately hoping that an upcoming reassessment will cause a re-opening of the popular fishery.

We’ve seen really bad laws slip through the legislature now and then. But usually we smell some advance odors of bad things afoot

AN OLD, somewhat cynical saying is that “Nice Guys Finish Last.”

The biggest threat to our fish populations has been commercial overfishing.

* A new assessment of Atlantic red snapper stocks surely will show abundance to be much higher than was divined in the suspect data leading to a total fishing closure.