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Lateral Line Fishing Blog
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The Lateral Line Blog features fishing reports for along the Atlantic Coast for striped bass and other inshore and offshore species, fisheries conservation issues and thoughts and other general fishing musings.
Recent Posts
Environmental Groups Ask Federal Agency to Oversee Clean Water Act in Maryland
Waterkeepers Chesapeake of Maryland and Waterkeeper Alliance (collectively “Waterkeepers”) today filed a detailed, 58 page petition seeking major changes in the way Maryland operates and enforces the Clean Water Act in order to better protect the...
A World with out Fish – New Fishing Conservation Video to Check Out
I just got a note from Ken over at the National Coalition of Marine Conservation about a new video they just released that talks about their organization and what they do. Pretty sweet video to check out A World Without Fish? Save Ocean Predators, Sa...
More on World Tuna Stocks in Trouble
Some information from a recent Time Magazine piece on Tuna stocks worldwide (picture from article in Time): In 1950, about 600,000 tons of tuna were caught worldwide. Last year, that figure hit nearly 6 million tons. At current fishing rates, the Wor...
Researchers Get Dirty To Clean Up Chesapeake
A good article on what the EPA is doing to determine where we need to clean up in the Chesapeake Bay first, i.e. where are the most polluted areas. Check this link for audio and the article. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Flaterallineco.com%2Fblog%...
Annapolis Maryland Fishermen to Soon have another NOAA Real Time Data Buoy
Anglers in the Annapolis area will soon have another NOAA buoy to consult for near-real-time wave height & direction, wind speed & direction, current speed & direction, water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and other m...
ASMFC Atlantic Striped Bass Assessment Update Finds Resource Not Overfished and Overfishing Not Occurring
The 2009 Atlantic striped stock assessment update indicates that the resource remains in good condition with female spawning stock biomass (SSB) percent of the SSB target and 185 percent of the SSB threshold (see Figure 1). Estimated fishing mortali...

