How Guiding and Conservation Go Hand in Hand

Capt. John McMurray is a famend big-tuna and striped-bass constitution captain based mostly on Lengthy Island, New York, and he’s been a pacesetter with the New York arm of the Coastal Conservation Affiliation and a long-time advocate for menhaden conservation. He’s additionally an oft-published outside author, who at the moment blogs for the Marine Fish Conservation Community and has had characteristic articles/images revealed in On The Water, Saltwater Fly Fishing, and The New York Instances. In a profile by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, McMurray talks about how his conservation ethos informs his guiding apply:

Conservation enhances what I do as a result of it creates abundance, and abundance equals alternative. The principle conservation problem off of Lengthy Island is that A LOT of our fisheries revolve round menhaden aggregations. We get the menhaden faculties, we get predators. Yearly although, the large-scale processors in Virginia sail purse-seine boats and fly spotter planes up right here. They sit proper off the 3-mile line and rake up a whole lot of hundreds of kilos of menhaden, successfully shutting down bluefin and striped bass runs. It REALLY sucks.

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